[haiku-development] Re: HAIKU in Q on MAC OS X
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:53:31 +0100 CET
"Dustin Howett" <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Urias McCullough <
> umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> > than real physical hardware. First and foremost, we need a format
> > that can
> > be booted on almost all cd-bootable hardware out there (ISO-9660+El
> > -Torito
> > comes to mind), and secondly, it should be easy to burn using
> > nearly any cd
> > burning software a user might be using (again, ISO+El-Torito comes
> > to mind).
> > In the end, it seems there's really only one real logical choice...
> Pulling the iso9660 filesystem into the bootloader and letting it
> find
> an IMAGE.BE (or whatever its name is decided upon being) on the CD?
> Seems it should be the same concept as loading from FAT; except maybe
> a cd-specific bootloader that first looks on the CD for the image
> file
> before anywhere else.
Looks like there are still two choices left ;-)
The other option would be to use the FS layering mechanism to add a
generic attribute layer that could be used to have an ISO-9660 (or FAT,
ext3, ...) file system with attributes and indexes under Haiku.
Bye,
Axel.
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