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Re: PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.



On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:24:22PM -0500, james@netcsi.com wrote:
> 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...

that is one thing i was wondering about.. many .debs have very long
filenames, longer then the HFS 31 char limit so it would seem that
some other filesystem format has to be used in this case, such as a
ext2 or iso9660 loopback ... or is there something im missing there?

-- 
Ethan Benson


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