Creating ISO image question

[Joe Altman]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:29:16PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Tks for your advice.
> 
> - snip-
> > mkisofs -o cd_image.iso <flags from mkisofs man
> > page> dir/ ?
> 
> Applying following command lines
> 1)
> # mkisofs -o cdimage.raw -R
> /usr/home/user-A/document-AAA
> 
> 2)
> # mkisofs -R -o cdimage.raw
> /usr/home/user-A/document-AAA
> 
> 3)
> # mkisofs -o cdimage.raw -R -pathspec
> /usr/home/user-A/document-AAA
> 
> all having same result. The path has not been copied
> to the cdimage, only the subdirectories under
> 'document-AAA' copied.

Of course; that's what you told mkisofs to do.

> If adding -J to the command line, cdimage can't be
> created with warning 'mkisofs: Joliet tree sort
> failed'
> 
> - snip -
>  
> > Generally I use:
> > 
> > mkisofs -o <filename>.iso -J -R -P "Joe" -sysid
> > "BACKUP" -V "<meaningful string>" -l backup/
> > 
> > Almost always, I use the same name for the
> > <filename> and for the
> > <meaningful string>.
> 
> $ mkisofs -o cdimage.raw -J -R -P "Stephen" -sysid
> "BACKUP" -V "/Storage-040517/" -l
> /usr/home/satimis/Storage-040517/
> ....
> ....
> Plug and Process-Has the Era of Utility Computing
> Finally Arrived.html have the same Joliet name

So rename them.