Re: PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.
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...
--
James Deikun, Techie(tm), CSI Multimedia
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