Re: PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 james@netcsi.com wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:56:24AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > For the "linux" part of the CD, you have several solutions: You can
> > simply have an ext2 image in a big file on the HFS partition and mount it
> > via loopback (slow). You can also probably add ext2 partitions using the
> > apple partition map of the CD, I _think_ the kernel will see them. You
> > can probably also do a multicession CD with the bootable HFS stuffs in
> > the first session, but tests must be done to see if MacOS can boot such CDs.
>
> The other possibility is the 'hybrid' ISO/HFS format -- will Macs boot that
> or is it a no-go?
>
> The nice thing about this is that you'd be able to see the files on the CD
> from MacOS and Linux equally without having to have the whole thing mounted
> under the Linux hfs driver and all the weirdness that entails...
And all those non-Mac Linux/PPC users can easily see the contents as well.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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