How would I go about authoring a CD with the correct NeXT filesystem?
Would it be possible to do this on a machine running Rhapsody or OS X? Ideally I'm looking to build a ISO file that can be burned later.
Quote from: "protocol7"How would I go about authoring a CD with the correct NeXT filesystem?
Would it be possible to do this on a machine running Rhapsody or OS X? Ideally I'm looking to build a ISO file that can be burned later.
NeXT is compatible with ISO9660 format that Toast can easily generate. This said, the one and only ISO9660 CD that I ever made for my white box (patches, apps, and other stuff) had a filename problem... i.e. the names were truncated 8.3 (DOS style). I have not went further to determine the cause, but I am sure ISO9660 supports long filenames. Otherwise I'll just tar everything into a single tar file and untar it on my white box to their original names.
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NeXT is compatible with ISO9660 format that Toast can easily generate. This said, the one and only ISO9660 CD that I ever made for my white box (patches, apps, and other stuff) had a filename problem... i.e. the names were truncated 8.3 (DOS style). I have not went further to determine the cause, but I am sure ISO9660 supports long filenames. Otherwise I'll just tar everything into a single tar file and untar it on my white box to their original names.
Most Windows disc authoring software default to using the Joliet file system, which NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP does not recognize. I also am not sure what ISO9660 level is recognized by NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, but long filenames may not be available in the lower levels. Disc authoring software often allows you to pick what file system to use when creating the disc image.
Thanks for the replies guys but I don't want to author a iso9660 image. I want to author one in the same NeXT format as the install CDs.
You probably want to read up on osx86 install dvd authoring, they use a system based on what I think is the original NeXT way of creating install media, except it uses HFS+ instead of UFS.
I don't know of any utilities that will make an ISO file in the original NeXT format. You may have to
roll your own ISO (
http://peterwong.net/blog/?p=119) if you want that format. However, you can make an ISO with long filenames that NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP can read by creating an ISO9660 image with Rock Ridge extensions. Most Windows authoring software won't create ISO's with Rock Ridge extensions, but you can do it with "mkisofs", which is included with
Joerg Schilling's Cdrtools (
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html). With instructions from kb7sqi I was able to get the latest version of Cdrtools to compile clean on OPENSTEP 4.2 on my whitebox. I can post his instructions on how to do that if anyone is interested.
Quote from: "Nitro"With instructions from kb7sqi I was able to get the latest version of Cdrtools to compile clean on OPENSTEP 4.2 on my whitebox. I can post his instructions on how to do that if anyone is interested.
I do, please !