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64 Studio Platform Development Kit
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Why are we shipping isolinux.bin with PDK? #20

Open obbardc opened 7 years ago

obbardc commented 7 years ago

The current version is eight years old. What exactly is the problem? Can we fix it?

It would be good to download this when we create the ISO, as we do with other binary files on the CD.

danielhjames commented 7 years ago

It was needed to create bootable CD-ROMs, and in those days we were only dealing with ordinary PC BIOS which didn't change much. See http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=ISOLINUX

danielhjames commented 7 years ago

See also the comment on https://github.com/64studio/pdk/commit/92df8f0c4c3d92cb55d6b4a88e427df29ef82675 that later versions did not work.

obbardc commented 7 years ago

It seems to work OK with jessie; so let's leave it for now. It would be good to know why it doesn't work though.