Re: m68k CD images
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Chris Lawrence wrote:
>I have a SCSI CD-R drive on the way (and theoretically an Amiga coming
>back from the repair shop... though that's not strictly speaking
>necessary) so I'll be putting together a slink CD (or CDs... not sure if
>m68k will fit on one CD or not) for m68k. Maybe it will even be good
>enough to be an Official CD, though I'm not holding my breath.
Good stuff. If you can test the latest version of the slink_cd script, and
tell me what needs to be done (or even better, send a patch) for Amiga
installation that would be very good.
>It's probably going to be a hybrid HFS/iso9660 [Rock Ridge] image...
>we've had reports that some systems choked on the Joliet extensions (and
>they shouldn't be necessary anyway for m68k users... I don't even think
>any m68k OS except Linux [& possibly *BSD] supports Joliet). It's
>probably not going to be bootable, but that shouldn't be a major
>limitation.
OK... In that case it looks like it'll be useful to remove the -J option
from the default mkhybrid command line. Time to go for arch-specific
options there too I think.
>I may end up hacking mkisofs to add support for the Amiga-specific Rock
>Ridge extensions (see http://makecd.core.de/Rock_Ridge_Amiga_Specific)
>so things may be executable from the CD-ROM. But that's not a high
>priority with slink on the verge (ha!) of being released.
*grin*
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