Re: ydl-cs1_2-install.iso


Subject: Re: ydl-cs1_2-install.iso
From: Leo Zhuk (lzhuk@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 16:10:48 MDT


Thanks, everybody on helping me with this issue. But,
since I don't have Mac CD burner, I'll probably will
have to buy Installation CDs. Does anyone know where
I can get them cheap? Thanks.

--- Charles Lepple <charles@ghz.cc> wrote:
> --On Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:41 PM -0500 Chris
> Ruprecht
> <cruprech@compucom.com> wrote:
>
> > I have to admit, I have not done this myself and I
> do not know which
> > format the .iso image is in. It might be in dd
> format which is just the
> > raw data - not sure how one would convert this
> into a CD under MacOS.
> > Under UNIX/Linux, I'd dd this onto some
> read/writeable media (CD-RW
> > maybe?) und them use Toast to make the final CD
> ...
>
> The whole idea of an .iso image is that it _is_ what
> you get from using
> 'dd' or some similar program to read a CD.
>
> The one-step solution under Linux is to use cdrecord
> (or one of the many
> graphical frontends for it) to burn the image
> directly to a CD-R. (No need
> to put it on a CD-RW, unless I'm missing something.)
>
> I recall burning an ISO image under MacOS about two
> years ago. It seems
> that the program I used (something by Adaptec, I
> think) didn't recognize
> ISO images unless it had written them itself
> (creator/type problems). I got
> around this by creating a dummy ISO image from
> within that program, using
> ResEdit to grab the creator and type from the dummy
> image, and setting the
> creator/type on the downloaded ISO image.
>
> For the curious, it's a whole lot easier to have the
> CD filesystem be
> something more Unix-y (like ISO-9660 + Rock Ridge,
> which is IIRC what the
> install CD is) as opposed to trying to read an HFS
> CD from Linux. With
> ISO-9660 and the Rock Ridge extensions, you get long
> filenames, symbolic
> links and Unix file attributes. When you mount the
> CD in MacOS, you do get
> the long filenames, but that's because the CD is a
> hybrid HFS/ISO image.
> (See misc/CD/mkINSTALLCD on the install CD for more
> details.)
>
> --
> Charles Lepple <charles@ghz.cc>
> http://ghz.cc/charles/

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