On Wed, 10 May 2000, Steven Grunza wrote:

[snip]

> I have a similar problem.  I used my Win98 box to download the NetBSD
> sources and binaries for both the 1.4.2 and the packages.  My CD Writer is
> USB based so I burned from Win98.  Under Win98, everthing on the CD looks
> fine, long file names etc.  Under NetBSD-1.4.2_ALPHA, the file names are
> shortened to standard MS-DOS 8.3
> 
> I typically mount the CD from the command line using
> 
> mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/cd0a /cdrom
> 
> Is there some variation on the mount command that will enable MS-DOS long
> file names?

It was my understanding that it went like this (someone please correct me
if I'm wrong):

iso9660 only supports 8.3 names, and only allows 8 levels of directories.

Under UNIX, the Rock Ridge extensions are generally used to get larger
file names, etc... (I believe it's actually called RRIP - the Rock Ridge
Interchange Protocol).

Under '98, it uses the MSFT way of expanding file names (I believe it
actually stores the info in a second partition; thus the first is an
iso9660 f/s, and the second is the proprietary Joilet f/s for MSFT's
own purposes ;-)

Therefore, the strict iso9660 image will only give you 8.3 file
names, unless rock ridge is present, in which case things should work (as
long as the image/burner can burn the rock ridge extentions).  I don't
know if the images you're referring to have the rock ridge extensions or
not...

Hoep this helps,

-Jon
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