Re: [SLUG] Apple-compatible CD, beyond ISO9660?

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 22:31:55 EDT


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Well, the Mac has a 31 character limit on filenames, so that's part of it. I
don't know if you can make an iso in linux with an hfs filesystem on it with
those long filenames. I don't know about the incantation part, though...

Russell

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 09:36 am, you wrote:
> A friend with an older Mac (System 8.something, I think, and not even
> the most recent 8.x release) bought a copy of the "1964 World's Fair"
> disc mentioned on Slashdot. It's got some long and weird filenames on
> it, and he says that it acts just the same as when he puts in a CD
> upside down -- the Mac doesn't recognize it at all.
>
> So I've copied it all to my Linux machine and tried:
>
> mkhybrid -o ../foo.iso -r -J -hfs .
>
> I haven't tried the resulting CD-R yet, but can any Apple+Linux folks
> out there tell me if that's the proper incantation?
>
> I can always turn it into an ISO9660 CD, and/or zip everything up with
> no compression (because why bother? it's mostly mp3) onto one file
> called DRINK_ME.ZIP, but I'd like to know how to make a CD-R that my
> Mac-using friend can use.
>
> Ben

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