Right now I'm burning the original FC6 CD1 to test to make sure
it boots.
Just to eliminate the possibility of problems with my G4.
OK, progress. Sort of.
The original FC6 CD1 boots just fine in my test machine.
So I decided to try to blow-open FC6 and just repackage it without
making any changes at all. I took the ISO on my build machine, and
mounted it loopback. Then :
cp -a /path/to/mounted/fc6-iso /path/to/fc6-copy
Then I used the mkisofs command that was used to produce FC7, and then
burned the ISO, and it does not boot!
Here is the exact command I used with my real paths shorted to
"/path/to" for readability since they were really long :
/usr/bin/mkisofs -v -U -J -R -T -part -hfs -r -l -sysid PPC
-no-desktop -allow-multidot -chrp-boot -map
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/boot/mapping -magic
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/boot/magic -hfs-bless
/path/to/fc6-orig/ppc/mac
-V "Fedora 7 ppc DVD" -o
/path/to/fc6-orig.iso
/path/to/fc6-orig
This is all being run on an FC6 G4
What gives?
Something in the "cp -a" is boffing me? It worked on I386
Now I'm going to try the same thing but just repackage the mounted
ISO, not the copy of it. If that one fails then I know there is a
problem with the "cp -a" and so I'll change it to using tar commands
to accomplish the same thing and preserved permissions.
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