topic Re: CDROM writer on RedHat in Operating System - Linux

CDROM writer on RedHat

John Downs_1 — Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:33:52 GMT

Greetings, I have a CDROM writer Plexwriter 8/20 that I use for making archives of designs.
I create the image with mkisofs and copy to the cd with cdrecord. I have encountered a few limitations with file names on the image. It appears to write everything in lower case and the file length is limited to 30 chararcters.
Is there a better solutions? Software or hardware that write to a CD without these limitations?

Thanks!

-john

Re: CDROM writer on RedHat

Steven Mertens — Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:13:30 GMT

hi,

Maybe it depends on the way you made your image.
I dont think the problem is hardware related.

You can try :

mkisofs -r -o -J -R

rgds.

Steven

Re: CDROM writer on RedHat

Stuart Browne — Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:27:40 GMT

Yup. I agree with Steven.

Basically you're just creating the ISO image using standard ISO9660 format ('mkisofs' with '-l').

Enabling either "RockRidge" (-r) or "Joliet" (-J) extensions to the format allow you to increase the file-name length, and support the mixed case names.

You might also want to generate a "TRANS.TBL" (-T) for those other OS' that don't support either of the above formats.

These are all detailed in 'man 8 mkisofs'.