Re: How to write the RH60 to a CDROM

["Calvin Coghlan" <CCoghlan dc-is org>]

Hi,

You need to use ISO9660 with RockRidge support.  NOT joilet.  Joilet is a windows format.  Rock Ridge is a unix format.

The problem is most cheap PC burning software can only do the joilet extension.

Calvin.

>>> yue-feng sun <sunyf@ldeo.columbia.edu> 09/10/99 10:27AM >>>
Hi all,

	I managed to install RH60 on my AlphaPC 164LX with the helps kindly provided in replies to my earlier posts.
	I downloaded the RH60 from sunsite.unc.edu and copied it to 8mm tape, and so used Hard drive installation. In the last two days, I was trying to put RH60 on a CDROM. What troubles me is that the file names are extremely long in these RH Linux. On a Mac, Adaptec Toast can admit only less-than-40-character file name with ISO9660 format and Joliet naming.
So it's not long enough. On a PC with HP CDwriter Plus and Adaptec Easy CD Creator, I used Joliet file format which admits file name of 64-characters, however, I could not install RH60 from it directly. I tried to copy the CDROM to hard drive and see what's going on. Then there are Input/output errors while copying from the CDROM to the hard drive.

	The reason that I am playing with this CDROM matter is that I'd like to install RH60 on my laptop which does not have enough space and I like to install RH60 from a CDROM. I have been using Slackware Linux for my Intel PCs for a long time and I like it very much. Installing this RH stuff is forced on me just because of one Alpha I got and I am not a RH person.

	If anyone knows how to make this cdrom, please advice. 

	
Thanks,

Sun