On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:44:25AM +0100, W. Michael Petullo wrote: > I'd like to create a CD-R disc that is bootable on my iBook laptop. > I am familiar with creating Linux-based bootable CD-Rs for the x86 > architecture, but can't seem to find a real good reference documenting > how to do the same for a (New World) Macintosh. > > Could the folks that author the Debian PPC CD-ROM image comment on > how they create it? I assume mkisofs or some other free software tool > is used. > > I've been fooling around with mkisofs's -boot-hfs-file and -hfs-bless > options with no luck. > > I am looking for a general overview on how a Macintosh bootable CD-ROM > is laid out followed by some example command lines for implementing one.
You want the debian-cd source, in tools/boot/woody/boot-powerpc. There are a few different ways to use mkisofs; you can copy an hfs volume and tell it to use the creators and types from there, or you can give it a map of creators and types to use. They use the map technique, I think it's easier to do the hfs copy (but that means using the painful hfstools to create the initial image). I also had bad luck with the blessing, and used hfstools to do it instead; but others haven't run into the same problems. The shell script I did, which is probably not a great example, is http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/powerpc-specials/mini-iso.sh -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
