[lug] cd burning

Hugh Brown hugh at vecna.com
Thu Jul 5 07:35:33 MDT 2001


I know that redhat added the trans.tbl to translate the 8.3 format back to
the regular names.  I think the option has the word translate on it.

FWIW,

Hugh


"D. Stimits"
> 
> I am still trying to get a bootable cd going. I have what I think should
> be bootable iso images, and download them to a win 2k machine to burn.
> It is set as iso9660, and my kernel supports this and a lot more,
> compiled in directly (such as msdos, vfat, iso9660, joliet, rock ridge
> extensions). The image I created works great in terms of being able to
> mount the file via loopback as iso9660...it definitely is readable while
> it is a file. I don't know how I did it, but once I could actually read
> a cd burned on win 2k, and since that time I haven't been able to do so
> much as mount any other burned cd, it claims no media. I'm wondering, of
> the people here who have burned iso's on win 2k, using the "Easy CD
> Creator 4" program, what settings are you using? I am curious about the
> following when burning a linux cd from easy cd creator 4:
> Track-At-Once versus DiskAt-Once;
> CD Layout properties of:
>   Mode 1: CDROM
>   Mode 2: CDROMXA
> 
> Type ISO9660 should be checked, at least I know that one;
> File name format:
>   ISO-9660 8.3 char file names;
>   Any MS-DOS 8.3 char file names;
>   Long file names (30 chars max);
> 
> At this point I'd be happy just to establish a burned ISO that is
> readable by linux as iso9660 (this of course leads to further
> unhappiness, since it means I have to then make it bootable, but heck,
> it avoids total boredom).
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com



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