Howdy there!
I am working on making a bootable CD that I can use to debug certain
problems with the product we’re working on. I have gone through and
set up the paths and stuff that I want to have on it, made the floppy
image, and make the iso of it. The problem is that some of the files I
have are too long in namelength.
What I am wondering is how the QNX people package up their CDs (example
is the install CD for QNX 4.2x. After the hardware check, the CD can
be used to do a lot of stuff). I want to be able to conserve the longer
filenames as well. What’s a good way to make a bootable QNX CD that can
contain whatever one wishes and keep the naming conventions that QNX
has. If possible, something that can also boot into Photon.
The issue I come across with Photon is the license file being where it
is (on the CDs root path) and since I used an ISO make utility, anybody
would be able to view it (not really a good thing).
Any suggestions are helpful! TX!
R B Adler
“R B Adler” <no@mail.com> wrote in message news:8ornga$fdu$1@inn.qnx.com…
Howdy there!
I am working on making a bootable CD that I can use to debug certain
problems with the product we’re working on. I have gone through and
set up the paths and stuff that I want to have on it, made the floppy
image, and make the iso of it. The problem is that some of the files I
have are too long in namelength.
You can probably create link of the long path directory to
the diminutive name that you would have created your self.
But I don’t know if the CD filesystem support links.
What I am wondering is how the QNX people package up their CDs (example
is the install CD for QNX 4.2x. After the hardware check, the CD can
be used to do a lot of stuff). I want to be able to conserve the longer
filenames as well. What’s a good way to make a bootable QNX CD that can
contain whatever one wishes and keep the naming conventions that QNX
has. If possible, something that can also boot into Photon.
If you look at the QNX4 CD, this is a custom stuff. So binaries are under
/bin and photon are under /cdphoton/bin. You could do the same, you
don’t need use the same directory structure as the one on the CD.
The latest ISOfsys support Joliet format so you should be able
to support filename and pathname of up to 64 characters
The issue I come across with Photon is the license file being where it
is (on the CDs root path) and since I used an ISO make utility, anybody
would be able to view it (not really a good thing).
Hum that an interesting one. I’m not sure if this is going to work but
what about have an encrypted license file on the CD. You decript
the file in /ram (ram disk) run “license /ram/license” start photon and then
delete /ram/license.
Any suggestions are helpful! TX!
R B Adler
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The problem I’m having with file names is the mkisofsys utility will
truncate the files to 8.3 format automatically (maybe I can change it to
allow the longer filenames). If I can do that, then no problemo!
And the license suggestion is good, I should have tried that earlier (a lot
of data is already encrypted, moved to a ramdisk and decrypted).
TX!
R B Adler
“Mario Charest” <mcharest@zinformatic.com> wrote in message
news:8os6qv$mb6$1@inn.qnx.com…
“R B Adler” <> no@mail.com> > wrote in message
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Howdy there!
I am working on making a bootable CD that I can use to debug certain
problems with the product we’re working on. I have gone through and
set up the paths and stuff that I want to have on it, made the floppy
image, and make the iso of it. The problem is that some of the files I
have are too long in namelength.
You can probably create link of the long path directory to
the diminutive name that you would have created your self.
But I don’t know if the CD filesystem support links.
What I am wondering is how the QNX people package up their CDs (example
is the install CD for QNX 4.2x. After the hardware check, the CD can
be used to do a lot of stuff). I want to be able to conserve the longer
filenames as well. What’s a good way to make a bootable QNX CD that can
contain whatever one wishes and keep the naming conventions that QNX
has. If possible, something that can also boot into Photon.
If you look at the QNX4 CD, this is a custom stuff. So binaries are under
/bin and photon are under /cdphoton/bin. You could do the same, you
don’t need use the same directory structure as the one on the CD.
The latest ISOfsys support Joliet format so you should be able
to support filename and pathname of up to 64 characters
The issue I come across with Photon is the license file being where it
is (on the CDs root path) and since I used an ISO make utility, anybody
would be able to view it (not really a good thing).
Hum that an interesting one. I’m not sure if this is going to work but
what about have an encrypted license file on the CD. You decript
the file in /ram (ram disk) run “license /ram/license” start photon and
then
delete /ram/license.
Any suggestions are helpful! TX!
R B Adler
\
Previously, R B Adler wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
The problem I’m having with file names is the mkisofsys utility will
truncate the files to 8.3 format automatically (maybe I can change it to
allow the longer filenames). If I can do that, then no problemo!
I had to play around a lot to get what I wanted out of mkisofs. Here
are the parameters I use.
mkisofs -l -v -L -a -R -o image.iso -V volid -p preparer
-P publisher input.index.file
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com