On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, David said: > OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is > working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave > up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered > that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files. > That's why it can't find the directories when I direct it to them. > This is probably my fault, though I'm not exactly sure why. I downloaded > the cd image from the debian ftp site and made a CD. I was sure to make > it 9660 format and can see all the files and folders on it with my Mac, I > just can't get to them with the Linux box. > > Has anyone made a CD for 68K Mac from this image before? Is so, what is > the secret. I tried making another disk at only 2x speed and that didn't > work either. I know I have a complete valid CD image, I just can't copy > it. > What command did you use to make the cd? You need to use a byte for byte duplicator in order to make the cd from the image. Did you use Linux to make the cd with dd if=[/file/cd/image] of=[/device/name/of/cdwriter] or did you use a mac utility? A byte for byte duplicator will put the filesystem on the cd for you as it is contained in the image.
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