Classic mac fun (and some questions)

Cameron Kaiser wrote: You could always put an NTFS FS in a file on an El Torito-formatted ISO9660 CD-ROM or DVD. So effectively you have: [CDROM] | +--- ElTorito Boot image | | | +--- Bootloader that can read ISO9660 + NTFS (GRUB?) | +--- NTFS.VOL (NTFS image) Though if you're not fussed that your CD is unbootable, treating it as a block device and blatting it with a raw NTFS image is a valid, if kludgy, way of dealing with it. Linux + ntfs3g would doubtless have no issues with block sizes and so forth (CDs have a blocksize of 2048 or 2336 bytes, depending on which Mode you're using). I do wonder if WinXP's NTFS loader can deal with NTFS partitions on odd devices and with strange blocksizes... Interestingly enough, this is (technically) on topic, because version 1.0 of the El Torito spec was released on January 25th, 1995. I seriously didn't think it was that old, though I should probably have guessed... The overriding question is, of course, "WHY?!" -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/