makeiso.exe for Windows 98

From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz_at_dragonsweb.org>
Date: Sun Jun 2 11:50:55 2002

James B. DiGriz wrote:
> John Foust wrote:
>
>> At 01:25 AM 6/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>>> "Jerome H. Fine" wrote:
>>>> I would like to set up an image of a CD in a hard disk file.
>>>> I understand that makeiso.exe does this in UNIX. Does
>>>> anyone have an executable version for Windows 98?
>>>
>>>
>>> I was just told that the name of the program is "mkisofs"
>>> in a Linux (or is that UNIX?). I want to be able to set
>>> up the file structure with "dummy" files every 65536 blocks
>>> so I can use the same files under both the iso file structure
>>> and the RT-11 file structure.
>>
>>
>>
>> A quick Google search found 'mkisofs' from http://www.cygwin.com/.
>> The installation process is a bit convoluted, but it gives a
>> good set of Unix-like tools for Windows.
>> On the other hand, any of the bundled freebie CD burning programs that
>> come with $60 CD-R drives these days (such as Roxio Easy CD Creator
>> and Nero Burning ROM) will easily create an .ISO file for you
>> from a list of files, using their nice Windows GUI instead of the
>> 'mkisofs' command line.
>
>
> X-CD-Roast is a great GUI frontend for mkisofs and the rest of cdrtools.
> I just installed the latest versions of both, from source, in about 10
> min. Not that mkisofs is hard to use to start with.
>
> You would have to patch it somehow to do the block allocation that way,
> though, I think.
>
> jbdigriz
>
>

Ack, left out a relevant bit. X-CD-Roast as of the 0.98alpha dev.
series, is written in C for GTK, so it should be possible, in principle,
to get it running with Gnome/GTK on Windows. I have not tried it, though.

jbdigriz
Received on Sun Jun 02 2002 - 11:50:55 BST

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