From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 16 03:10:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5761065670 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:10:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5398FC08 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:10:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-68-238.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.68.238]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 446863C922; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:10:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id mBG3AFcj019954; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:10:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:10:14 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Gary Kline Message-Id: <20081216041014.52b54151.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20081216021626.GB64553@thought.org> References: <20081215200949.GA48169@thought.org> <20081215222314.GA61777@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20081216021626.GB64553@thought.org> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:10:35 -0000 On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:16:26 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > But say that I yanked the photos and used just plain text: 8-bit chars > perhaps, and created my own CDROM version. --I *wouldn't* waste my time > duplicating this collection, but say that I did. Could this be done in > plain HTML and not require an ISO disc? I'm not sure I did understand the question correctly, but in order to make a CD or DVD browsable on "Windows" PCs, they need to have an ISO-9660 filesystem on it, eventually extended with the "Joilet" (I think it is called that way) extension because ISO-9660 has certain restrictions (8.3 filenames, directory depth, number of files in directories etc.). In UNIX world, we have the RockRidge extension to compensate this. But we don't need ISO-9660 in UNIX land. One of the best file systems (that isn't a file system in fact) for interoperability is tar. You could, for example, use tar to put your files on a CD or DVD (or at least use it to pre-master the content and then use a burning application to record it). To get such content from a DVD, you would just % tar xf /dev/dvd But I think this is only possible with UNIX (BSD, Linux, Solaris). "Windows" cannot handle this, of course. So, for your own CD-ROM version, try to use an ISO-9660 file system with the RockRidge extension, just like % mkisofs -r bla.iso sourcedir/ and then use your favourite burning application. If the RockRidge extension cannot map the file names and directories correctly, you can at least stick with tar: % tar cf bla.tar sourcedir/* If this isn't the answer, never mind, just reform the question. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...