From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 19 15:14:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10286 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:14:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10264 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:13:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA00687; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:13:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:13:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Chris Walth cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM writing questions... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Chris Walth wrote: > > Hello, > > I am thinking about writing a couple of CDs that are ment to only be > read by UNIX machines. Is there a way to preserver the long > file/directory names when writing the CD? > > Is it possiable to write a standard UNIX filesystem to a CD so you can > just do a mount on the CD and read the files? FreeBSD can't read UFSs off of CDs, but it does support the Rock Ridge extensions to ISO9660 which will preserve the long filenames. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message