On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:09:02PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > > > There's also another thing that need to be worked on, the CDs. The > > > > > script creating the images is not smart enough to select just the > > > > > good number of packages for each CDs. Currently, the two binary CDs > > > > > can still be generated for potato but not the source images (they are > > > > > too > > > > > big). And many dependencies on the first CD are not met. > > > > > > > > For m68k-mac and powermac we need 'hybrid' cd-images (msdos + hfs). > > > > > > A bootable CD for PReP will need a special layout as well. prep image + > > > isofs...looks like we need multiple powerpc binary cd images. > > > > And i guess this will be the same for apus systems, ... > > No! Only one (2) cd for all powerpc systems. Please think about a wrapper for > this > or special boot-arguments ... but not 5 different powerpc-images.
I think the issue is the different way that different ppc systems uses to boot from the CD. I am not entirely sure how amigaos does this, but i bet it is different from macos ... Sure, we could choose not to be cd-bootable, best would be to d othis the same way it is done for linux/m68k cds .. Friendly, Sven LUTHER