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On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:30:53PM -0500, mmissett wrote: > > I have been booting the (installed) system off the installation CD, which > works great. (G4, potato, installed on external scsi drive, non BIOS scsi > card). I would like to be able to create CDs to boot from - either for > backup for when I wear this one out, or to use a different kernel, or > whatever - but I am having no success. Whether I copy the relevant files > (kernel, yaboot, yaboot.conf, etc.) to a new CD, or I copy the entire Debian > CD, I still get the same message from OF: “can’t OPEN: cd:,\\yaboot”. A > comparison (by Toast) of the Debian CD and my copy shows there are two > (invisible, root directory) files that are not being copied, Desktop DB and > Desktop DF. Do these “bless” the CD, making it bootable and, if so, does > anybody know of any way to make them copyable so I can get them onto my CD? > Or any other way to get it to work? > Alternatively, is there any way to get the boot-floppy-hfs.img on a > (bootable) CD? Getting it on a floppy seems pretty easy, but that’s not > terribly useful on a G4.... > I can’t find anything on this subject anywhere I’ve looked, so any > suggestions, hints, info, etc. would be most appreciated. > Mike potato r4 CDs are not bootable, and if the cdimage people continue to use a cvs debian-cd there will never be bootable potato CDs again. use woody not potato. and no desktop files don't have anything to do with bootability, they are just cruft. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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