Re: [WinMac] Yes you can! [was:Re: record Mac CD using PC CDRW]

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:51:32 -0400

Umm, that reminds me...there's also a freeware solution, though it's
considerably rougher around the edges:

(I got this from someone on the Info-Mac list...btw, has anyone gotten
any Info-Mac digests recently? I haven't gotten one in a couple of
weeks, and am wondering if I got bumped off the list for some reason...)

"There has been a lot of interest in writing CD ROMs recently. I
mentioned a GNU program that is available to write Mac HFS CD ROMs on a
Windows machine, and several people asked for more details.

The program is called mkhybrid, and can easily be found by doing an
internet search on that keyword. It can be downloaded from the following
URL, and the documentation is included in the downloadable file. There
is also a UNIX version.

<http://www.ps.ucl.ac.uk/~jcpearso/mkhybrid.html>
"
This was from Ian Goldby, ian@iangoldby.free-online.co.uk

Note, neither Dans or this solution do what the original person wanted,
which was to use a CD-R on a LAN as a local drive. Toast will not run
unless it sees a CDR on the local scsi bus, at least the version that
came with our CD writer at work...that was on a PC, and I took toast
home to try to make a disk image I could then take into work on some
other media and burn.

Also, mkhybrid, and a related GNU program mkisofs only make disk images
which then need to be burned to the cd via other software. (at least
last time I looked they did.) Also, AFAIK, mkhybrid is the only tool
available that will make Windows Joliet, Mac HFS _and_ higher ISO 9660
level (I think it's 3 or 4) ie: long file names on each platform, hybrid
disks. EZ-CD creator and Toast only make ISO 9660 level 1 disks, which
are restricted to 8+3 filenames.

Daniel L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> Found it!
>
> From <http://www.macwindows.com/Disks2.html>:
> ----
>
> MacImage: <http://www.macdisk.com/macimgen.htm>
>
> A utility to enable you to create hybrid (HFS/ISO) or pure HFS Macintosh
> CD-ROM from a PC. MacImage borrows a long-used technique from emulators and
> coprocessor cards by creating a virtual Mac HFS partition in a PC file.
> (Emulators and coprocessors use virtual FAT drives in a Mac file.) The
> MacImage utility lets you move files between the virtual Mac partition and
> Windows directories. When you have all the files you need, you can copy the
> HFS partition onto the ISO partition or burn it as a pure HFS CD-ROM. (L &
> SD has posted a MacImage tutorial in English and in French.)
>
> ----
>
> According to the info on the MacWindows site, it's 95/98 - No
> mention of
> NT. Most likely, it *should* work under NT as well, unless direct access is
> required.
>
> Cheers!
> Dan
>
> At 11:31 AM 7/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >At 9:14 AM -0400 7/27/99, Rosemary J. Hagen wrote:
> >>We just purchased a Creative Labs CD-RW which works with Windows 95/98.
> >>Will it be possible, over a Novell network for me to record Mac CDs using
> >>this? Any advice on how?
> >>
> > Not to my knowledge! Since the PC doesn't know from all the
> >funky stuff in HFS/HFS+, there isn't any way to burn a Mac CD from a
> >PC.
> >
> > The only way that would work, but I don't recall being
> >supported by anyone, would be a way to create an "image" on the Mac
> >side and have it burned on the Wintel side.
> >
> >
> >Leonard
>
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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
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