Subject: Re: YellowDog 2.1 ISO image
From: James Turner (jdt@dcs.warwick.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 04:01:12 MST
Right, the ISO image downloaded from ibiblio.org worked fine. Well, I
haven't tried to boot from it yet, but MacOS X recognises it anyway!
FYI the exact size of the image I downloaded and worked is 677505024
bytes.
Thanks
James
On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 19:19, James Turner wrote:
> Yeah, I've just been reading all the similar messages from earlier this
> month.
>
> It seems to me that there is a lot of descrepancy between the difference
> YDL 2.1 ISO images on the different mirrors. I first tried the one from
> YDL's ftp server, which was only 500 megs or so. I mounted it and it
> seems to be fine, but it didn't work with MacOS 10.1 after burning. The
> only ISO image that seems to have worked is the one from
> ftp.ibiblio.org. I'm downloading it now.
>
> I'll let you guys now if this one works.
>
> Cheers
>
> James
>
> On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 19:11, Bill Vinson wrote:
> > 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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