Re: Anyone used a Apple CD 600e with A2?

[Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us>]

mdj wrote:
> Unfortunately you have to boot from a ProDOS filesystem which is
> limited to 32mb. A CD can be 'formatted' as either HFS or ISO-9660 and
> be readable by GS/OS, but unfortunately you can't boot from those
> filesystem types.

You can put a ProDOS filesystem on a CD.  None of the usual CD-burning tools
know a thing about ProDOS, but you can use my ProDOS/HFS Partition Table
Generator to string together some filesystem images into an ISO that you can
burn with any Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc. CD-burning app:

http://alfter.us/files/prodos-parttbl-gen.tar.gz

> I don't believe it's possible to partition a CD either, but I've never
> tried it, so as they say anything is possible

I have a System 6.0.1 bootable CD that has multiple partitions on it (one for
each of the disk images, plus a 1.4-MB boot-disk image with SCSI drivers and
some other stuff added).

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