How to burn a Windoz friendly CD?

[fow99]

Hi all,

I am trying to burn CD with mkisofs and cdrecord to burn some CD under linux. The CDs are fine but the files therein are always shown in DOS 8.3 format. I guess it has something to do with mkisofs. How can I keep the long files names?

[7]

mkisofs has loads of options, you should really check the man page. The command I use to burn disks is:

mkisofs -J -R -l -allow-multidot -iso-level 3 -o /path/to/output.iso /root-of-cd

The important option for you is -J which adds Joliet extensions for longer filenames under Windows.

[fow99]

I was just following the HOWTO.

Thanks any way. I will try that.

[bkurt]

Or you could try one of the nice graphical mastering applications. My favorite so far is gnometoaster. You can get it at http://gnometoaster.rulez.org