Re: PPC bootable ISOs

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Joshua Kugler wrote:

> Oh...well, I didn't mean to just say "it's been done," I thought maybe you'd
> be able to take an existing example and dissect it to help you on your way.
> But maybe it's not that simple. :) In the words of Einstien (I think),
> "Example is not a way to teach, it is the only way to teach."

The only problem with that is that one needs to dissect the *filesystem*
itself, which isn't trivial (at least for me). If it was just a matter of a
few files present on the filesystem itself (which is 90% of what IBM CHRP/PReP
needs), that would be easy. But on Apple you have to throw in an ISO/HFS
hybrid filesystem with a blessed folder and a file meta-info mapping.
Dissecting the difference between my failed attempts and what SuSE does is a
little more complicated, and I don't see any of those companies publically
documenting their CD creation procedure.

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Received on Fri Jul 8 09:42:48 2005