On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:17:02AM -0600, Bradley C. Midgley wrote: > it is possible to create new world bootable cd's without driver > partitions. there are just a bunch of hfs details to worry about. look at > the bootable debian cd build process (it's a hybrid bootable only on new > world i believe) you do NOT need driver partitions on NewWorld bootable CDs. > also it is possible to have toast create an old+new world bootable cd > image with a size of 650M and from linux repopulate it and burn the > result. sorry if i have the details missing here but i did get this to > work. no toast won't create hybrid filesystems AFAIK, hybrid filesystem is required since part of the debian archive is on CD1. > what *didn't* work for me was trying to have mkhybrid steal a driver > partition from a real bootable cd to simplify doing everything from linux. > this functionality is marked as experimental code and may or may not see > more devel work. oldworld bootable CDs are not possible, deal with it. it require proprietary non-distributable software (drivers). as for the correct way to run mkhybrid look at the current cvs version of debian-cd. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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