Re: bootable ISOs

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

> hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost wrote:
>
> > At 1:53 Uhr +0900 10.3.2009, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > > I've committed some changes to src/distrib/cdrom
> > > and put (unofficial and untested) bootable ISOs:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/iso/mac68kcd-5.0_RC2-20090307.iso.
> > > gz
> >
> > Seriously? Bootable? mac68k? System 7 and all? How did you do that? And
> > what does Apple say?
>
> Depends on definition of the word "bootable."
>
> I'm not a Macintosh user, but I thought it was common knowledge
> that using Booter utility was the only way to boot NetBSD/mac68k.
> In that scope, "bootable ISO" means a CD image which has a hyblid
> ISO9660/HFS file system with all necessary executable MacOS binaries.
>
> If you don't think it is so common, you can add a FAQ entry
> that mentions "you need MacOS to boot NetBSD/mac68k"
> before answering "what to do" to boot.
>
> Anyway, your message has discourage my motivation enough.  Thanks,

I have a Mac SE/30 that I want to try but I have to find a CD ROM drive.
Maybe I should try ebay. :)

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