Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:09:02PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > No! Only one (2) cd for all powerpc systems. Please think about a wrapper for this
> > or special boot-arguments ... but not 5 different powerpc-images.
>
> I think the issue is the different way that different ppc systems uses to boot
> from the CD. I am not entirely sure how amigaos does this, but i bet it is
> different from macos ...
>
> Sure, we could choose not to be cd-bootable, best would be to d othis the same
> way it is done for linux/m68k cds ..
Exactly. For a PReP bootable CD (which would be nice), you have to lay
the first track as a raw PReP bootable image. The second track has your
fs in whatever format you want dos/iso/etc. Although this CD will work on
other architectures, it will not be bootable unless they have boot schemes
which don't conflict with PReP. The problem is that each subarch is too
different to have a full-featured unified CD. If we want a unified
official CD then it will have to go to the lowest common denominator. Of
course, a PPC user can't boot from CD then they have to resort to floppy
or network which means we've got to split the rescue disk or fix the libc
hack so we can squeeze on one floppy.
How hard is maintaining separate bootable CD images for each subarch that
can handle booting from CD?
We have
apus - ?
chrp - ?
pmac - supports CD booting - how?
prep - supports CD booting - as I described.
Everything on the fs will be the same at least between subarchs.
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