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Simple question! Subject says it all, really!

I have read the group for info, but there seems to be some disparity in
the answers... Is it ISO9660? What's RockRidge? Should it be HFS?

The user guide says that the live.filesystem file should be on an HFS
drive - presumably this is only for a Hard Drive install, and that if it's
on a CD (UFS? ISO?) it will still find it?

If it is ISo9660, and the filenames are 8.3, will the file live.filesystem
still be recognized by BootX?

If one uses mkhybrid to create the disk, what flags should I set? It's all
FAR too confusing ;-) If someone has done a burn with successful results,
caould you please post the mkhybrid command line in reply to this message?

I guess this could all be answered by this question:

How is the LinuxPPC R5 OFFICIAL CD formatted?

An unequivocal answer would be MUCH appreciated ;-)

Many thanks indeed!

Rob

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Quote:> Simple question! Subject says it all, really!

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Maybe not quite what you asked, but..
I downloaded linuxppc and burned it using a PC.
I used the 'joliet' format. This gave me 8.3 names with the wiggle
(like blabla~.rpm). I had the RedHat folder in the root, and
copied then the installer.bin to my apple harddisk, extracted, ran
and it worked. This is because the installer kernel has vfat
format support.
Although I do not recommend doing it thus, as my apple does
not see the long names as linux does, it worked.

Niels

Minor correction: It worked because the installer kernel has *JOLIET*
support.  Once you burned the CD, VFAT didn't enter into the equation.

Quote:> Although I do not recommend doing it thus, as my apple does
> not see the long names as linux does, it worked.

MacOS doesn't see the LFNs, and MacOS won't be able to run Mac programs
from such a CD (unless perhaps you encapsulate them in an .img file that
itself contains an HFS filesystem and mount that file with Disk Copy or
if your CD-R software has dual Joliet/HFS support). If the LinuxPPC
installer is like the Red Hat 6.0 installer in this respect, though,
Joliet will work just as well for an install as Rock Ridge, provided the
CD is burned correctly.

(Note: I've done installs with Red Hat 6.0, but not yet with LinuxPPC R5,
so I'm basing my LinuxPPC comments on what I've seen reported on the net,
what I've seen with pre-R5, and whopping big assumptions.)

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