> I've found out some more about the nature of the problem. I found out how to > navigate down thro the file structure using the <> keys. The booter is > concentating the folder names to 8 characters. Hence it cant find > "new-powermac" cos it see's it as "new-powe". I can get past the > "disks-powerpc" folder by navigating , but the booter is looking to find > "new-powermac" and cant. > > Why should this be?. Is there a setting somewhere in dbootstrap?. Can I pass > it an argument to change this setting?. Maybe its a setting in my CDRom > or Drive.
It's a bad idea to rely on a CD-ROM holding long filenames. They are only available as an add-on, of which there are several popular types: Joliet -- offers Unicode and DOS attributes (for Windows) RockRidge -- offers UNIX permission bits and ownership (for UNIX) Apple -- offers CREATOR, TYPE, forks, etc. (for new Macs) HFS -- makes the disk also be a valid HFS filesystem (for old Macs) When you create a disk, you'd better enable all 4 features. You'd better also simply avoid long filenames; some systems won't understand them in any format, and they're a pain to type anyway.
