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Bill McNAMARA_1
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CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

Must have filename in upper and lowercase.

If I recall, -o cdcase sets all to lowercase.

How should I burn the cd?

Later,
Bill
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Martin Burnett_2
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Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

Hi Bill,

I know this says Linux but I use it as a guide and it does talk about HP-UX compatibility, as well as other OS's using ISSO 9660, Joliet, Rock-Ridge extensions etc.

http://www.ssc.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

HTH

Martin

PS forgot the link in the first response:

http://www.cdrfaq.org/
Ceesjan van Hattum
Esteemed Contributor

Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

If you have seen for example the HP Instant Information CD's, all file- and directorynames are in UPPERCASE. Burn a cd in uppercase!

You can set a directorytree to uppercase by using something like:

for uppercase in `ls`
do
for lowercase in `ls $uppercase|tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
do
mv $lowercase $uppercase 2>/dev/null
done
done

Once your tree is uppercase, burn the CD. Success !
Dmitry G. Spitsyn
Trusted Contributor

Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

Have you tried to use pfs_mountd & pfsd on HP-UX side?
BR,
Dmitry
Bill Hassell
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Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

There are perhaps a dozen options that you must consider to provide a truly compatible CD. Things like multiple dot extensions (ie, abc.def.xyz) which are OK in Unix but cause difficulties in Windows. To complicate matters, HP-UX supports only the most rudimentary CD standard (ISO-9660), added a simple lowercase and version translatory (-ocdcase) and requires the PFS subsystem to mount and decode RockRidge Extensions.

There is a patch (only for HP-UX 11.11) which provides a fairly compatible, native mode driver for mounting RockRidge (POSIX and ECMA 168) CDs. An 11.00 patch will be available next month, no patch for 10.20 (which is rapidly going obsolete). Don't record CDs in Joliet format on the PC.


Bill Hassell, sysadmin
Bill McNAMARA_1
Honored Contributor

Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

Is there a doc on this somewhere, because I am still having difficulty.

I really have never had a problem transfering cd's from linux to windows, and never had much problems with windows reading multiple kinds of file formats, directory lengths, depths and filenames.

The problem is with hp-ux.
Linux proves this.

Later,
Bill

It works for me (tm)
Wodisch
Honored Contributor

Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

Hi Bill,

IIRC then the Ignite/UX manual about "creating you own media" describes it fairly well...

HTH,
Wodisch
H.Merijn Brand (procura
Honored Contributor

Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

By far the easiest way is to create an ISO-FS image on the HP-UX system with mkisofs, and just burn that image to CD. Readable in both unix and windoze worlds. IIRC it's available in the CDRtools, but if you realy want to know I have to look it up tomorrow. I've used it on more than one occasion.
Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
Bill McNAMARA_1
Honored Contributor

Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

I'd appreciate that procura

PS: the ignite faq says to use linux to create the cd.

Bill
It works for me (tm)
H.Merijn Brand (procura
Honored Contributor
Solution

Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

mkisofs is part of the CDRtools. Works perfect with long case insensitive names and spaces in names. Do not use colons or backslashed in names. Probably all defined in the RockRidge format

ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/

Use google "CDRtools"

I used 1.11a13pre3 from ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha/

CDRtools *only* supports writing to SCSI CD(re)writers, not IDE! (thought that should not be a problem on HP-UX)

using mkisofs to create an image, one can also choose to move that image over the network to a PC with writer software to put the image to CD (I use a laptop to take the image home, to put it on CD)
Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
H.Merijn Brand (procura
Honored Contributor

Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

Just a few minutes ago I saw this one, might help user friendlyness to the CDRtools (which makes you need to read the manual pages)

Subject: X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha10 - A program-package dedicated to powerful and easy CD creation.
From: xcdroast@freshmeat.net
Date: 23 Apr 2002 21:31:38 GMT
Newsgroups: fm.announce

X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha10
by Thomas Niederreiter (http://freshmeat.net/~tn/)
Tuesday, April 23rd 2002 17:36

About:
X-CD-Roast is a program-package dedicated to easy CD creation under most
Unix-platforms. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav",
and "mkisofs" into a nice graphical user interface.

Changes:
Full multisession support, full CD-Text (read/edit/write), experimental
support for cdrecord-ProDVD, a configuration wizard to enable or disable
the non-root mode graphically, a lot of bugfixes, and many overall
convenience improvements.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xcdroast/

Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/redir/xcdroast/11795/url_homepage/
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/xcdroast/11795/url_tgz/
Changelog: http://freshmeat.net/redir/xcdroast/11795/url_changelog/
RPM package: http://freshmeat.net/redir/xcdroast/11795/url_rpm/
CVS tree (cvsweb): http://freshmeat.net/redir/xcdroast/11795/url_cvs/
Mirror site: http://freshmeat.net/redir/xcdroast/11795/url_mirror/

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
Bill McNAMARA_1
Honored Contributor

Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

Hey Procura,

how could you have assigned points to 78 of 77 responses..
looks like a bug!

Later,
Bill
It works for me (tm)
H.Merijn Brand (procura
Honored Contributor

Re: CD readable/compatible with HP-UX and Windows

There's three ID's in my list (see Forumers Statistics) that have a 100+ percentage, I'm one.

I guess it's a message that I requested to remove, cause it was posted twice, one of wich in the wrong group (browser error, maybe due to itrc timeout)

From that day on I'm on 100+

Yes, I agree. It's a bug :) but it ranks me higher :)))
Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn