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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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