APPLE_DRIVER(8)APPLE_DRIVER(8)NAMEapple_driver - extract Macintosh partition label, maps and
boot driver
SYNOPSISapple_driver CDROM_device > HFS_driver_file
DESCRIPTION
Apple_driver extracts the information from an Apple (or
compatible) CD-ROM required for the -hfs-boot-file option
to mkhybrid(1).
The CDROM_device is the device name used by the CD-ROM
(e.g. /dev/cdrom).
The format of the HFS driver file is:
HFS CD Label Block 512 bytes
Driver Partition Map (for 2048 byte blocks) 512 bytes
Driver Partition Map (for 512 byte blocks) 512 bytes
Empty 512 bytes
Driver Partition N x 2048 bytes
HFS Partition Boot Block 1024 bytes
The Perl script hdisk.pl can be used to give a listing of
what's on a Mac CD. hdisk.pl is part of hfsutils.
NOTE
By using a driver from an Apple CD and copying Apple soft-
ware to your CD, you become liable to obey Apple Computer,
Inc. Software License Agreements.
SEE ALSOmkhybrid(1)PROGRAMMER
James Pearson (j.pearson@ge.ucl.ac.uk) 18/5/98
The driver code (both extracting the driver and creating
partitions etc. is based on code from mkisofs 1.05 PLUS
by Andy Polyakov <appro@fy.chalmers.se> (see
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/mkisofs_plus.html)
Version 1.0 18 May 1998 APPLE_DRIVER(8)