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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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