makeiso.exe for Windows 98

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Sun Jun 2 13:22:31 2002

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Jerome H. Fine wrote:

> 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.

  Mkisofs is availabla as part of the cygwin tools, but IIUC, will not
do what you need. It simply builds an ISO filesystem of a list of files
or a directory tree. It doesn't attempt to duplicate the file_system_
at all, ie block placement.
  You need a tool that reads at the raw-device level, not at the level
of directories or files. Both cat and dd, used properly, can do that in
Unix, but I'm not at all sure that the Windows-based cat & dd can even
_see_ a raw device. If you're working with Erstz-11 container files,
There might be a way to fiddle it.
  Something like Ghost or Drive Image might be a better solution, but I
don't know if either will attempt an unrecognized filesystem, and
neither is particularly cheap.

        Doc
Received on Sun Jun 02 2002 - 13:22:31 BST