APPLE_DRIVER(8)

NAME
apple_driver - extract Macintosh partition label, maps and boot driver

SYNOPSIS
apple_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 software to your CD, you become liable to obey Apple Computer, Inc. Software License Agreements.

SEE ALSO
mkhybrid(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 genisoimage 1.05 PLUS by Andy Polyakov <appro@fy.chalmers.se> (see http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/genisoimage_plus.html)

This manpage describes the program implementation of apple_driver as shipped by the cdrkit distribution. See http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debburn/ for details. It is a spinof from the original program distributed by the cdrtools project. However, the cdrtools developers are not involved in the development of this spinoff and therefore shall not be made responsible for any problem caused by it. Do not try to get support for this program by contacting the original authors.

If you have support questions, send them to

debburn-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org

If you have definitely found a bug, send a mail to this list or to

submit@bugs.debian.org

writing at least a short description into the Subject and "Package: cdrkit" into the first line of the mail body.