There are a couple of options. Your best bet is to burn it on a Mac using Toast. Another option is to use something like Nero on Windows, but there are some issues with burning a Mac volume on a non-Mac system.
Basically, you create a dual-filesystem disk. On the Windows partition of the disk, I like to use ISO9660 + Joliet naming. For the Mac side, you generally use HFS, but you can use ISO with Mac extensions for filenames. HFS supports more metadata, which is the trick with creating a good hybrid disk. By keeping the metadata, you get to preserve the extended filetyping for the type and creator, and you also get the resource fork which stores the custom icons. (Some of this may be changing with Mac OS X and Apple moving away from good metadata towards weak filename typing instead. But OS X will still handle a well-formatted HFS CD and use all the features.) There's a catch to the Mac metadata though: you can't preserve it on Windows since the Windows filesystem doesn't support it. So while burning software like Nero supports creating HFS CDs, it can't write any of the metadata. To do that, you have to burn it on a Mac. And of course, Toast on the Mac supports Windows volumes just fine since Windows isn't as dependent on the metadata (yet). By the way, Toast supports sharing common resources on the disk in the ISO area and only using the Mac partition for the parts that are Mac-specific. It's a nice way to save space instead of duplicating absolutely everything. Keep in mind that even text files are different between Mac and Windows since the line-endings differ. So I usually make a separate Mac and Windows readme file. The third option is to just burn an ISO disk with directories for Win and Mac and leave it up to the user. With Mac OS X, this is getting easier since OS X supports filename extensions natively. So double-clicking a .pdf file without a type/creator set to PDF/CARO will still open it in Acrobat Reader or whatever. -Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:46 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Hybrid Burning Software > > > I am needing to burn some CDs that will correctly in both mac > and windows environments. > > The Idea here is to have a flash movie on each CD, one being > an EXE and the other being a mac executable, when the CD is > inserted I want the movie to start automatically on each system. > > I know how to do this for a windows box already, but what > about a Mac, and on the same CD. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Host with the leader in ColdFusion hosting. Voted #1 ColdFusion host by CF Developers. Offering shared and dedicated hosting options. www.cfxhosting.com/default.cfm?redirect=10481 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
