> No problem, I'll send that out. But, there's one catch with it. I generate
> the ISOs using version 1.12b5 of mkisofs (this was before it became part of
> the cdrecord package). The reason for this is it's the only version I've found
> patches for enabling the creation of bootable SPARC Linux CDs. The latest
> version of mkisofs supports creating SPARC bootable CD-ROMs, but in the standard
> SPARC CD fashion...which is one slice per architecture. Under Linux, we use
> SILO on the CD, so there's only one slice and SILO picks the correct kernel to
> boot.
>
> I am going to put this version of mkisofs in the cdutils package in AP (will
> probably install it to /usr/bin/mkisofs-1.12b5), so that you can generate your
> own bootable SPARC CDs. I'll get the script mailed out when I do that.
Is it even possible to generate a Sparc CD from an Intel machine? I'm
running from the Slackware 7.1 distribution and have mkisofs-1.12.1.
It does have the -B option for Sparc slice booting, but it does not have
the -S option.
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