On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:43:42PM +0000, Wookey wrote: >On Sun 10 Nov, Gerhard Tonn wrote: >> Hi, >> a customer of Debian for S/390 would like to browse through the s390 docu on >> Windows. Does anybody know how to add Joliet support? > >Joliet support is something that is done at the time of creation of the CD >image. If you already have some CDs and they were not made including joliet >support then this cannot be retrofitted. You probably can make Windows read >'rockridge' CDs which is what the CDs will use to support long filenames, >lower case and permissions. > >If you want to make some new s390 CDs with Joliet support then you need to >add the -J option to mkisofs when the CD is made. This means setting the >MSISOFS variable in /etc/CONF.sh from the debian-cd package. > >To the CD-team more generally: Looking at the scripts I see that i386 and >alpha CDs add -J automatically, but not the other arches. Is there a good >reason why we don't make them with -J anyway for exactly this reason (easy >to browse on a handy windows box before the install?). I suppose it uses up >some space on the CD, but presumably not actually very much? I make my ARM >CDs with -J and no-one has complained...
There was a hint of problems for m68k a long time ago, ISTR. So I turned off -J for the m68k CDs a long time ago, in slink IIRC. -- Steve McIntyre, Plasmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
