[H-GEN] Making CDs
Christopher Biggs
chris at stallion.oz.au
Mon Jan 18 16:33:49 EST 1999
Simon Raboczi <s160289 at student.uq.edu.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Michael Anthon wrote:
>
> > I want to make a CD that I can read on a windows machine and still see the
> > long file names. I have been able to do this using mkisofs with the -J
> > option to make Joilet extensions, but this has the downside of making the
> > files on the CD with the "read only" attribute set, which sucks.
> >
> > If I use the rock ridge extensions, then I don't get the RO attribute, but
> > lose the long file names......... any thoughts?
>
> No answers, just a supplementary question: Are the various extensions
> mutually exclusive, or would it be possible to have a CD with, say,
> rockridge for unix, joliet for MS, and whatever it is Mac uses, all
> coexisting atop ISO?
Can do!
mkisofs -JrT gives Joliet, Rock Ridge and plain old TRANS.TBL on the
one disc.
I prefer to use lower-case 'r' option for Rock Ridge, as uppercase is
a bit more anal about permissions (which is often not what you want on
a CD).
cjb.
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