OT: minicpan CDROM case sensitivity problem

[rinceWind]

I've been using CPAN::Mini quite effectively to keep an up to date minicpan mirror on my Linux box. I've turned this into a tar file on my memory stick, and it's a neat way of carrying CPAN in my pocket :).

The combined size is ~500Mb: quite a handy size as it fits nicely on a CD. I've burned one of these to pass on to colleagues. I work in an environment where personal downloads are frowned upon, but I have approval to use CPAN modules.

I've burned one of these minicpan mirrors onto a CD, which loads nicely on Linux. The problem is that Windows sees all the file names as upper case, which stops CPAN.pm, etc. from seeing the distributions.

I've read that Joliet provides full WinNT file syntax. Is it easy to make a Joliet CD from Linux? Is this the right road to go down? Has anybody else done something like this?

[Random_Walk]

If I remember correctly mkisofs -J makes a Joliet compatable CD on Linux. Think that should be what you need. If you use a GUI to burn the CD you will have to see if you can pass parameters when you make the iso.

To create the CD on the command line you will want somthing like this ...

    *   Creating an iso image

       mkisofs -J -o cd_image.iso /dir/to/burn/as/root 

    * Find you CD device

      cdrecord --scanbus

    * Burning iso image (use dev = found with scanbus)

       cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -data cd_image.iso 

    * Burning data on the fly

       mkisofs -J /dir/to/burn/as/root | cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=4
+ -data -

have a look at man mkisofs and man cdrecord

Cheers,
R.

[rinceWind]

Thanks, Random_Walk

I will certainly have a go when I get home. To date, I've been using k3b, and not grappled with the command line CD burning utilities. I'll need to grok the man pages to understand what other command options I need.

update: success!

I found the right combination of Joliet and Rock-ridge to allow deep directory nesting and get the casing sorted out for Windows. Having saved the iso image, I was able to use k3b to burn a CD from this. Then I determined the cdrecord command from this and was able to burn another CD.