On Monday 24 January 2011 16:16:22 Andreas Henriksson wrote: Hi,
> > It might be a good idea to test in advance whether overwriting bytes > > 38919 to 40959 by zeros makes the image recognizable. (Byte numbers > > decimal starting at 0. Byte 38912 bears 255, 38913 bears 'C'.) > > Unfortunately additional problems has already been detected > (by disabling the reserved bytes check). Please feel free to look at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610783 > I haven't had any chance to determine if this is because of bugs > in libarchive or another problem with the generated isos. Some more investigation with powerpc images which have been produced by genisoimage reveals that install directory is unpacked just fine: $ bsdtar xf debian-squeeze-di-rc2-powerpc-CD-1.iso $ ls install/ boot.msg ofboot.b pegasos powerpc powerpc64 yaboot yaboot.conf $ find install install install/yaboot.conf install/ofboot.b install/powerpc install/powerpc/vmlinux install/powerpc/vmlinuz-chrp.initrd install/powerpc/initrd.gz install/yaboot install/boot.msg install/pegasos install/powerpc64 install/powerpc64/vmlinux install/powerpc64/vmlinuz-chrp.initrd install/powerpc64/initrd.gz $ cat /mnt/test/.disk/mkisofs /home/debian-cd/build/debian-cd/../genisoimage ... -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org