[vox-tech] dvd and strange filenames
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Apr 21 12:09:56 PDT 2005
Quoting Peter Jay Salzman (p at dirac.org):
> Is there a way of getting Windows to mount this DVD fine?
The DVD appears to be missing some helpful Windows-world file metadata.
More below.
> I'm vaguely familiar with the terms "rockridge" and "Joliet", but I
> *thought* I burned the DVD using rockridge extensions...
Rockridge gives you better than just 8.3 filenames + DOS file attributes
on _Unix_. Joliet gives you comparable enhanced metadata on _Windows_.
Anyhow, you need to specify Joliet in addition to Rockridge in whatever
software tool you use to generate your ISO9660 or UDF images.
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