[plug] Burning linux to a CD

[Mike Holland]

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Daniel Pearson wrote:

> Wheen burning RHL5.2 to a CD, with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 3.5b, do I burn
> in Joliet format, or ISO9660?

Whats a "Adaptec Easy CD Creator 3.5b"?   Hardware or software?

Daniel, iso9660 is THE format for CDs, but only allows 8.3 filenames like
the DOS FAT filesystem.
  'Joliet' is a microsoft "technology" (sic) for longer filenames, which
goes on top of an iso9660 filesystem, but seems (in my exp) to suffer from
case ambiguities.
   Linux understands Joliet, but its much better to use Rockridge
extensions. This uses a "TRANS.TBL" file in each directory to map short to
long filenames, (and other info??).

So the answer is iso9660.
 If your copying software sees 8.3 filenames on the source, and the
'TRANS.TBL' files are present, Linux will
see the long filenames. But watch out that the filenames are not being
mangled by some evil windoze software.

BTW, why burn an old distro like RH5.2 anyway?

Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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