Re: bootable mac68k iso (Was: Tools mkhybrid(8) for mac68k/macppc ISO9660/HFS install ISO images

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 at 20:21, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
>
> abs@ wrote:
>
> > > As you wrote another message, mac68k one should work
> > > if the previous external mkisofs version has worked.
> >
> > OK, so releng have confirmed the changes to include the mac68k ISO
> > image are being deployed to the autobuild cluster, so bootable mac68k
> > ISO images should start showing up on https://nycdn.netbsd.org/ soon

Bootable NetBSD-HEAD mac68k iso images should now be available on
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/ - direct download should be

https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/images/NetBSD-10.99.10-mac68k.iso

Now calling for people with a mac68k and CD-writer to give it a test :)

> I guess we still need to consider the following (lower priority) items:
>
> - maybe debug.tgz and xdebug.tgz should be excluded from ISO
>   to avoid 700MB overflow
>   (I'm not sure if src/etc/Makefile can handle it, but -m option
>    of mkhybrid(8) should work)

We have prior art for that - at least sparc64 excludes debug.tgz and
xdebug.tgz from the default iso (but includes them in an optional dvd
image)

> - we should prepare an intermediate target on creating iso
>   by mkhybrid, rather than to specify ${RELEASEDIR}/images/NetBSD-foo.iso
>   as an output image directly (especially for macppc that needs
>    ${TOOL_MACPPCINSTALLBOOT} in "iso-image-md-post" process)
>
> - rename targets like "iso-image" "do-iso-image" "iso-image-setup" etc.
>   in src/etc/Makefile to explicitly denote "to create special
>   ISO9660/HFS hybrid ISO images only for Mac ports"?

Makes sense. Are there any other ports which have similar additional
iso manipulation requirements which should be pulled into a similar
pattern?

> - also change ${MKISOFS} and ${MKISOFS_FLAGS} to ${TOOL_MKHYBRID}
>   and ${MKHYBRID_FLAGS}, if we will no longer use external and
>   newer ${MKISOFS} for other ports
>   (at least I didn't bother to pull "-eltorito-boot-efi" option
>    into our tools mkhybrid(8) to avoid unnecessary conflicts)

Also reasonable, but probably less urgent.

Thanks again

David