On 18 Mar, this message from Rogério Brito echoed through cyberspace: > 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 already read the /usr/share/doc/mkisofs/README.hfs_boot > document, but as it states, it is outdated. Also as the name > implies, does it work only for HFS CDs? As I stated earlier, > my intention is to make ISO9660 CDs, with tools available > under Debian.
No idea whether an ISO9660 can be bootable on Newworlds..... > BTW, AFAIK, generating bootable CDs for oldworlds also is not > possible with tools in Debian, right? I'd like to, if > possible. What if I am not restricted to tools available with > Debian? There are two approaches: do-it-yourself, or copy from somewhere else ;-). I made myself a bootable Oldworld rescue CD with my complete MacOS stuff on it. I started from my 7600's MacOS Rescue CD, which contains a partition table, drivers, and a single (200 MB) HFS partition. I copied that into a larger CD image, hexedited the partition table to reflect the larger size of the HFS partition, loopback-mounted it with offset (partition table and drivers), and made a HFS filesystem on it. Copied my stuff to it, and burned it: bingo. For do-it-yourself, you'd need the driver from somewhere else... Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
