Re: PPC bootable ISOs

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 09:42 -0800, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> 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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Some of the Gentoo stuff is specifically about installing on a Power5. I
realize Gentoo is a little more bleeding edge than you normally care
for, but the documentation on what they're doing might give some insight
into what you're working on.

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