Burning (Windows) autorun-capable CDs

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:35:07PM -0500, Anton Markov wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have been trying to burn a CD under Linux using K3b (which basically 
> uses the standard mkisofs, cdrdao, cdrecord tools) which will be 
> recognized by Windows as an AUTORUNable CD. So far I have had no success.
> 
> I have an AUTORUN.INF file which specifies a batch script to be run by 
> Windows. I have tried burning this under Windows, and it works fine (so 
> my file is not the problem). In fact under windows I didn't have to do 
> anything special (no special options or anything), which leads me to 
> believe there is something wrong with my CD (or specifically mkisofs) setup.
> 
> Does anyone know how to burn autorun-capable CDs under Linux (or a place 
> where I can get the information)? My search on google has turned up 
> people with similar questions, but no answers :(.

What filenames are you using?  If any are more than 8.3 you must enable
Joliet support in the cd writing setup to allow Windows to get the full
filenames.  Otherwise windows gets some hacked up 8.3 versions of the
original filenames.

Other than that I am not aware of anything special about the way autorun
should be done.

Lennart Sorensen
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