On 10/06/2017 11:08 AM, Finn Thain wrote:
I'm confused. Didn't you say back then that the files are there and
usable on the Debian Sarge installation media?
There's no contradiction. Binhex (.hqx) is usable if you can unpack it (at
best inconvenient). OTOH, Macbinary should get decoded by $MKISOFS and
that makes it ideal. This is the only reason I can see why the debian-cd
package in fact creates a hybrid ISO for m68k.
So, in the end we're getting binaries on the CD image which users can directly
start from MacOS? Into what exactly is mkisofs going to convert the Macbinary
files into?
Well. I think it's still a sensible idea to create the floppy image if
there are tools generally available to write those to floppies.
In the end I did figure out the reason why the penguin.hfs image exists:
it is there so that you can create a Mac floppy disk using a Linux PC with
a floppy drive. It's only useful for installing Debian on a Mac which has
no network connection, but I guess there is some value in it.
I agree. Let's keep it then.
But there's no value in PenguinColors. According to Penguin.doc from the
Sarge ISO, these CLUT resources were incorporated into Penguin-16. ResEdit
confirms that Penguin-19 also contains these resources.
What's PenguinColors?
The point about $MKISOFS remains: the binhex files (.hqx) should be
converted to macbinary (which is why I sent you the macbinary files). But
perhaps we should just provide both formats instead of dropping the hqx
files entirely?
Well, we need to provide the source with the binaries otherwise we'll
run into license problems.
Adrian
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