Hi all, Hopefully one of you will be familiar with MacOSX CD burning. I have created an iso of the first CD image for my Alpha (debian-30rev0-alpha-binary-1_NONUS.iso) and this is sitting on my Powerbook running MacOSX. To burn CD's on this beauty one inserts the CD, picks iso9660 format and a empty folder appears representing the CD. Then you just drag files to the empty folder. I am worried that this will just create a single file on the CD called debian-....NONUS.iso rather than the correct directory structure for the CD.
Here is all the details + what I have found out. To try and see what happens I slipped in an older Alpha CD and a folder appears. Its actually a directory mounted under /Volumes tmp$ ls -l /Volumes/ drwxrwxrwx 5 mikel unknown 126 Oct 5 11:45 deb-30rev0-alph-bin-1_NONUS in fact from mount its: /dev/disk1s0 on /Volumes/Debian 2.2 r0 alpha Bin-1_NONUS (local, read-only) This shows up in a folder with all the correct directory structure and files. Good, so I thought I might mount the iso I made myself similarly which would then show all the dir structure in a folder and copy them across that way like so: root# mount -o loop debian-30rev0-alpha-binary-1_NONUS.iso /dev/disk1s0 /Volumes ah but mount on MacOSX has no option for loopback and does not have a loopback device in /dev ! (a quick google didnt show me how to make on OS X) I used jigdo-easy to create this iso and a loopback device is required to mount the iso to update it later on. Also I had to abort the second iso so really need a loopback so I can continue where I left off on the second iso. Questions are: 1. has anyone burnt an iso for debian under MacOSX and how? 2. how do I make a loopback dev for MacOSX? Michael Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
