Subject: Re: YellowDog 2.1 ISO image
From: Bill Vinson (billvinson@mac.com)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 12:11:24 MST
myhrbrid and mkisofs are only used for creating iso images to then use
cdrecord or some other burning software to burn on to cd. Isos are at
least to the best of my knowledge raw data that cdrecord does not need
to understand the filesystem etc.
Bill
On Sunday, November 4, 2001, at 02:01 PM, andu wrote:
> James Turner wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have just downloaded the YellowDog 2.1 ISO image and burnt it to a CD
>> using cdrecord under Redhat on an Intel machine. However, although this
>> CD seems to have been burnt sucessfully (I can mount it as per normal
>> under Redhat), it is not recognised under MacOS 10.1. Also, when I try
>> to boot from the CD by holding down C during startup, the CD is
>> ignored.
>>
>> I was wondering if anybody knows the answer to this one? I'm guessing
>> that cdrecord burnt the CD using some file extension that MacOS doesn't
>> recognise or something?
>
> Did you use mkhybrid? I burn cds on Slackware which are readable on
> macOS 9.x but I also have on the linux side netatalk which provides
> correct file extensions for the mac and --netatalk option.
> Read the mkhybrid man pages and experiment. I was unable to make a boot
> disk though theoretically it is possible with the -boot-hfs-file
> <fileName> option.
>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> James
>
> Andu
>
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