Great help, now I know what joliet is I will use it to create my cd.
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From: "WarmFuzzy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: cd createing
> John Rye wrote:
> >
> > Goldenpi wrote:
> > >
> > > I have been createing cds, for use on both windows and linux,
containing
> > > programing stuff. I have created it all on my hdd, but when I try to
put it
> > > on the cd it I am given the choice between iso9660 and some filesystem
> > > called jouliet(I think). What is this filesystem, how well supported
is it,
> > > and which should I use. If I use iso9660 I would have to do a lot of
> > > reorganiseing directorys.
> >
> > Jouliet is the long filename system.
> > Just about every cd burner I've seen gives this as an option
> > to the ISO9660 definition.
> >
> > ISO9660 is a internation standardised method for placing/writing data
> > data to CDROMs
> >
> > I suggest reading the man pages for the particular program you
> > are using.
> >
> > cheers
>
> Just to clarify a bit, (cut and pasted from CD-writing HOWTO)
>
> The most obvious difference between the ISO 9660 filesystem compared to
> the Extended-2 filesystem is: you can't modify files once they are
> written. Other limitations of the ISO-9660-filesystem include:
>
>
> only 8 levels of sub-directories allowed (counted from the top-level
> directory of the CD)
>
> maximum length for filenames: 32 characters
>
> 650 MB capacity
>
> RockRidge is an extension to allow longer filenames and a deeper
> directory hierarchy for the ISO-9660 filesystem. When reading a CD-ROM
> with RockRidge extensions under Linux, all the known properties of files
> like owner, group, permissions, symbolic links appear (feels like a Unix
> filesystem). These extensions are not available when reading the CD-ROM
> under DOS or the Windows-family of operating systems.
>
> El Torito can be used to produce bootable CD-ROMs. In order to use this
> feature, the BIOS of your PC must support it. Roughly speaking, the
> first 1.44 (or 2.88 if supported) Mbytes of the CD-ROM contains a
> floppy-disk image supplied by you. This image is treated like a floppy
> by the BIOS and booted from. (As a consequence, while booting from this
> virtual floppy, your original drive A: (/dev/fd0) may not be
> accessible.)
>
> HFS lets a Macintosh read the CD-ROM as if it were an HFS volume (the
> native filesystem for MacOS).
>
> Joliet brings long filenames (among other things) to newer variants of
> Windows (95, 98, NT). However, the author knows of no tool that allows
> long filenames under plain DOS or Windows 3.11.
>
>
> HTH,
> Fuzz
>
