Re: boot-floppy-hfs.img
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:17:26PM -0400, John R. MacPhail wrote:
> > Dan: add the following line to your maps file for mkhybrid when
> > creating CD images:
> >
> > .img Raw 'ddsk' 'DDim' "floppy_image"
> >
> > this will cause the image files on the CD to show up with the
> > correct
> > file type/creator in macos.
Checked lately? I have been for months.
> <snip>
>
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
> Thanks, Ethan. That solved the problem with the weird disk size. Now
> I notice that the version of miBoot in the BootX distribution _does_
> have the right MacOS type and creator, and it looks as though this got
> broken when putting it into Debian. (That is, the mkboot.sh file in
> powerpc-specials/miBoot would be improved with conditional code to fix
> the type and creator in case we are on pmac.) It now does seem that
> the boot blocks are not a big deal here, as my new floppy seems to be
> acting the same as the one I made before by just copying the files.
The file created by mkboot.sh is a raw image, not a macbinary file. It
doesn't have a creator or type. They are correct on CD images, though.
Dan
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