...or install the Joliet patch available for the kernel. This will allow Linux to see the long filenames on a Joliet based CD.
(personally I agree that making the image on the Debian box with mkisofs is the way to go.) Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Baetzler wrote: > Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: > :Recently, I wrote a CD under Win 95 using easy CD pro. > [...] > :But when I try to read it under Linux, it does the same thing > :as under dos: all the long filenames are translated to 8.3 > > The Win95 formatters usually write the CDROM as "Joliet" file > system - i.e. they use a proprietary format that's currently not > supported in production releases of Linux. That's why you get > long filenames in Win95, but nowhere else. What you want to do > is format your image using the Rockridge Extensions. Alas, I > don't think that there's a CDROM formatter/writer software for > Windows that'll do that for you. What you should do is create > the CDROM image using mkisofs on Linux, and then write that > image using your Windows writer software. > > Bye, > -- > Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <A HREF="http://www.fh-karlsruhe.de/~bath0011/>Visit my Homepage!</A> > "The cowards never came, and the weaklings died on the way" - R.A.H. > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
