APPLE_DRIVER

NAME

apple_driver - extract Macintosh partition label, maps and boot driver

apple_driver CDROM_device > HFS_driver_file

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.

By using a driver from an Apple CD and copying Apple software to your CD, you become liable to obey Apple Computer, Inc. Software License Agreements.

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)