On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 20:40 -0700, Grant wrote: > > > Hello, does anyone know how to make an ISO and then burn it to a CD > > > with the full filenames preserved? I tried specifying Joliet and Rock > > > Ridge but the output from mkisofs looks like the filenames are being > > > altered. > > > > AFAICR none of the available CD filesystems support the full range of > > Unix filenames.
Using Rock Ridge extension AND translation tables (man cdrecord) does. One should avoid Joliet if the CD shall not be used on Wondies. Regards Frank PS: Excuse me that "middle posting" ;) > > > > If this is for backup purposes you might be better off just making a tar > > file and burning that directly to CD - tar is designed for archiving, > > after all. The resulting CD will be readable by e.g. "tar > > tvf /dev/cdrom". > > I ended up tar'ing it and it works fine. Thanks for everyone's help. > > - Grant > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
