Re: Making a bootable CD for newworlds?
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:21:24AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
> On Mar 18 2002, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
> > I would like to know if anybody here has any recipe for making
> > bootable (ISO9660) CDs for newworlds. My intention is to make
> > me a rescue CD (something akin to those loads of mini-Linux
> > distributions, with my choice of tools etc).
> (...)
>
> I would like to thank everybody that replied. I have now read
> a good deal of documentation on generating the bootable CD,
> but I still have some questions:
>
> 1 - After I create a blessed directory (with the -hfs-bless
> option of mkisofs) containing yaboot, yaboot.conf, vmlinux
> and a ramdisk suitable, how will OpenFirmware know that
> upon pressing "c" it will have to load yaboot? Is it
> because the pair type/creator of yaboot is boot/UNIX?
>
> 2 - is the ofboot.b file necessary for booting?
>
>
> Thanks for all help so far, Roger...
Did you ever figure this all out, and do you have a working script?
I'm getting a new machine next week with a CD burner...
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