Re: Making CD to be read on Windows

["Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On 5/18/06, Michael Marsh <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/06, Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> > I've made a CD containing data (html and jpg files) which works fine
> > here but causes problems on Windows machines (surprise surprise!). The
> > browser (presumably IE) keeps saying "Page not found".
> >
> > I think this may be something to do with filename length. I have an idea
> > that the answer may be to make the CD with the -J switch. Can anyone
> > confirm this? I really DON'T want to have to rename all the files,
> > especially if that isn't the problem!
>
> Here's my standard procedure for making a data CD:
> $ mkisofs -o image.iso -J -r <directory>
> $ cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:/dev/cdrom image.iso
> This has always worked on both Linux and Windows, and the "-r" should
> make it work on a Mac as well.  At least I *think* Mac is the platform
> that needs Rock Ridge extensions.

Rock Ridge is for Posix systems. Mac OS X can use Rock Ridge and
Joliet. You can use -apple to create apple ISO9660 extentions. It is also
possible to create a hybrid ISO9660/Joliet/Rock Ridge/HFS image.