On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:03:23AM +0000, Francesco Lanni wrote: > I was trying to understand what procedures I should follow to create a > bootable CD for my G4 PowerMac. > I thought that I have to use mkhybrid. > Any hint/help? Also is there any documentation available? > Thanks in advance > Francesco you need to just put yaboot and a simple ofboot.b script somewhere on your CD, (look at the examples in the current debian CVS). then you need to setup a minimal `maps' file so they get the proper HFS types. once you do that run mkhybrid like so: mkhybrid -part -hfs -map maps -no-desktop -hfs-volid Debian_Bootstrap \ -r -o cdimage.raw master the maps file looks like this: # This mapping is needed to successfully boot and to keep macos from # treating everything like a text file (ugly!) # # EXTN XLate CREATOR TYPE Comment .b Raw 'UNIX' 'tbxi' "bootstrap" yaboot Raw 'UNIX' 'boot' "bootstrap" linux Raw 'UNIX' 'boot' "kernel" .conf Raw 'UNIX' 'conf' "bootstrap" root.bin Raw 'UNIX' 'root' "root_image" * Raw 'UNIX 'UNIX' "unix" after you make the image you need to `bless' whatever directory you put ofboot.b and yaboot in do that like so: hmount cdimage.raw hattrib -b ':install:powermac:' humount if you put the ofboot.b/yaboot in the root directory (this makes things easier..) use hattrib -b : then burn your CD and it should boot like any other macos cd (on newworld only). the current potato debian CDs should already be bootable on all newworlds. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
Attachment:
pgpIXTKlvagPw.pgp
Description: PGP signature