From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "William A. Perkins" To: Joseph Arceneaux Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Off topic filesystem question Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:21:00 -0000 Message-id: <199708251507.IAA25054@yama.phoebus> References: <199708220021.RAA13778@emptiness.arceneaux.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-08/msg00478.html >>>>> "Joe" == Joseph Arceneaux writes: Joe> This is not really a cygwin question, so I must apologize in Joe> advance. Joe> I have a Unix file system which I'm trying to render onto a CD. Joe> The CD burner only runs off a Windows system (or potentially, Joe> NT). The Question is how to preserve the many softlinks in Joe> the file system so they appear properly on the CD. Joe> Any suggestions would be appreciated. Joe> Joe Joe, I have done this successfully by first making a ISO9660 image using mkisofs on the UNIX system (in my case Solaris and SunOS) first, then copying the image to the PC and burning the CD there. Here are some helpful links to check out: * Linux CD-Writing < http://www.shop.de/~winni/linux/CD-Writing/ > discusses the use of mkisofs. * Golden Hawk Technology < http://www.goldenhawk.com/ > has some free software which will burn a CD using an image, if your software won't do it. * mkisofs source can be found in any of the Linux archives one place would be < ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/mkisofs/mkisofs-1.11.tar.gz > I have successfully compiled mkisofs under cygwin32-b18 (on Win95) by defining NON_UNIXFS, but it won't make a good image. isovfy and isoinfo work under cygwin32 though. I didn't put much effort into finding the problem. Has anyone else had any luck? Hope this helps. Bill -- Bill Perkins Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories Environmental Technologies Division, Hydrology Group P.O. Box 999 MSIN K9-36 Richland, Washington, USA 99352 voice: (509) 372-6131 fax: (509) 372-6089 email: wa_perkins@pnl.gov - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".