[CLUE-Tech] CD burning

[Lynn Danielson]

I think it's the "-l" switch that you need to use.  These are the
switches I tend to use:  mkisofs -dlLr  or mkisofs -dlJ

-d to get rid of the trailing dot
-l for long file names (UNIX & Windows)
-L to allow file names beginning w/ dot (UNIX)
-r for Rock Ridge extensions (UNIX)
-J for Joliet extensions (Windows)

You can make an image with both Rock Ridge & Joliet extensions,
but if I'm planning to ever use the disc under windows, I just
use Joliet.  If it's strictly Unix/Linux CD then I use Rock
Ridge.

Fwiw,

Lynn

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:49, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> I burned a CD for a friend, but he said all the filenames were cut off. I
> think to get filenames beyond 8.3, one uses Rockridge extensions? It sounds
> like that's what happened here, although I haven't been able to see the
> results myself. I could have sworn I mounted the CD and looked at it myself
> and thought it looked fine..I mounted it under RH 7.3, though, and he's
> looking at it under some variant of Windows. I don't think that should make
> any difference, but I'm not sure.
> 
> Anyway, I just wrote the CD like this:
> 
> mkisofs <some options> | cdrecord <some options>
> 
> Is there a recommended set of options folks use for mkisofs? And do you
> usually create the ISO and then mount it (I've never done this and don't
> know how) before you burn it?
> 
> TIA,
> -- 
> Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc at americanisp.net  
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