On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 10:33:31PM -0600, Chien-Yu Chen wrote:
| I want to be able to play my mp3s on my AIX box at work. so I found the
| player, get the sound supports..(never thought I would get sound with aix
| boxes..but I did)...now the only thing I need is a cd with mp3s...
| however, since AIX does not support Joliet, I can only go for Rocke Ridge.
| I am not quiet sure how to do that...here is what I did:
mkisofs allows you to do both Rock Ridge and Joliet at the same time.
It'll cost you a little bit of extra space, but not much.
| I used mkisofs to write everything into a image..then I tried to burn it
| as an image under 95..(easy cd, or something like that). but it won't take
| it as image since it's not in CIF format..so I just burn it with iso9660
| format...but when I tried to mount it, it won't mount it..(it tried,
| tried, tried...giving me errors like tray open, packet command error).. Is
| this the correct way of burning what I want?
These errors/problems probably aren't due to RR vs Joliet. iso9660 is
correct, and RR and Joliet cds are in iso9660 format (RR and Joliet
are extensions to iso9660.) AIX should be able to even mount a
iso9660/Joliet cd without any problems - you'll just lose the long
file names and instead see 8+3 or 30 character names (depending on how
it was done.)
The errors you're describing suggest that 1) you're doing something
wrong with the mount command or 2) you've made a bad cd (that's not
going to work anywhere) or 3) this particular cd rom won't read this
particular cd.
| second thing I want to do is burn a running system onto a Cd, and make it
| bootable..so I can take the cd to my bro's 95 box and boot into linux
| (would need some swap space on his system though)..is this possible? (I
| want to put every app. I want on a system, then burn it..) pro. and cons?
It's possible. Not trivial, but possible.
You'll probably also need to put /var and /etc and /tmp onto a ram
disk (of course, this will get tricky, as /etc is needed for bootup.
Perhaps easier would be to move all the changing files in /etc to
/var/etc ... doable, but it won't be terribly easy.)
It really depends on how usable you'll want this system to be on how
much work it will be :)
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