Burning (Windows) autorun-capable CDs

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 3 08:49:01 UTC 2004


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, 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 :(.

I did it with cdrecord and it worked.

Peter
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