Re: CD-ROM weirdness, and System 6 on CD-ROM

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <3E3F5F0E.3020605@telus.spamless.net>,
Wayne Stewart  <waynes@telus.spamless.net> wrote:
>Scott Alfter wrote:
>> On another note, has anyone ever put System 6.0.1 on a CD-ROM?
>
>I've made a System 6.0.1 installer CD. Having all the files in one
>folder won't do as the installer looks for specific disks with specific
>names.

I found that out the hard way. :-)

>What I did was make up a partitioned CD. I did this by taking a
>small hard drive and partitioned it into ProDOS partitions. I
>transferred the contents of each floppy into a partition and renamed
>that partition to whatever that floppies was. Then I did a blind SCSI
>copy(device copy) with Toast. The hard drive wasn't mounted at the time
>and didn't contain Mac drivers. When done I had a bootable 6.0.1
>installer CD.

Interesting...I was thinking of making a CD with a bunch of >=800K HFS
partitions (since mkisofs doesn't support ProDOS and the IIGS supports
neither Rock Ridge nor Joliet extensions to ISO-9660), but that approach
would necessitate use of a boot floppy.  That your CD is bootable
(presumably not El Torito, but something else) is even more interesting.

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