Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] HFS compatible CDs
From: Vivek (vivek@imaginet.co.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 17 1997 - 12:26:48 EST
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, John Ostrowick wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Simon Hefti wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am new here and am just trying to find out how to burn a Macintosh
> > compatible CD on the Linux box. I am using netatalk and have copied
> > all the files I want to have on the CD to the Linux machine via
> > netatalk. Now there should be a way to include the .AppleDouble information
> > in such a way on the CD that the Mac will find it ?
> > Any help is appreciated. Simon.
>
> you have absolutely no chance of succeeding. the .appledouible stuff is
> reunified with the othger stuff by afpd. so unless that cd is mounted on
> an afpd server it will never be usable.
Hang on though - couldn't you use the afpfs module to reimport the
netatalk shared directory into the linux box, and use that to make an hfs
filesystem, which could then be burned onto the CD?
directory_with_.Appledoubles--->netatalk--->afpfs--->hfs--->CD
-- fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/cortex
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