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

From: btt (btt@nethouse.com)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 19:12:35 EDT


On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:45:25PM -0400, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> > 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 .
>
> Mac doesn't use Joliet, so the -J flag isn't going to help.

There is a 3rd party extension that provides joliet support:

 http://www.temple.org/joliet/

The extension used to be freeware, but it appears to be shareware now.

The site also abounds with interesting info. on CD formats.

> > > 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?
>
> A quick google on "mkisofs HFS" turns up some interesting links.
>
> - Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net> <ian@blenke.com>
>



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