Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:10:14 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar 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>
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:16:26 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> 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, ...
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