On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:03:23AM +0000, Francesco Lanni wrote:
> I was trying to understand what procedures I should follow to create a
> bootable CD for my G4 PowerMac.
> I thought that I have to use mkhybrid.
> Any hint/help? Also is there any documentation available?
> Thanks in advance
> Francesco
you need to just put yaboot and a simple ofboot.b script somewhere on
your CD, (look at the examples in the current debian CVS). then you
need to setup a minimal `maps' file so they get the proper HFS types.
once you do that run mkhybrid like so:
mkhybrid -part -hfs -map maps -no-desktop -hfs-volid Debian_Bootstrap
\ -r -o cdimage.raw master
the maps file looks like this:
# This mapping is needed to successfully boot and to keep macos from
# treating everything like a text file (ugly!)
#
# EXTN XLate CREATOR TYPE Comment
.b Raw 'UNIX' 'tbxi' "bootstrap"
yaboot Raw 'UNIX' 'boot' "bootstrap"
linux Raw 'UNIX' 'boot' "kernel"
.conf Raw 'UNIX' 'conf' "bootstrap"
root.bin Raw 'UNIX' 'root' "root_image"
* Raw 'UNIX 'UNIX' "unix"
after you make the image you need to `bless' whatever directory you
put ofboot.b and yaboot in do that like so:
hmount cdimage.raw
hattrib -b ':install:powermac:'
humount
if you put the ofboot.b/yaboot in the root directory (this makes
things easier..) use hattrib -b :
then burn your CD and it should boot like any other macos cd (on
newworld only).
the current potato debian CDs should already be bootable on all
newworlds.
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