In Zeta you can mount UDF volumes just as you would mount
any other volume on your system, and create UDF volume images for
burning to CD or DVD. The udf/i-udf-ds will let you mount
and access most commercial read-only DVDs and most custom burned,
single- and multi-session UDF DVDs and CDs. (Note that Tracker
lists all sessions on the disc; the bottommost volume in the list
is the most recent). The makeudfimage will let you create
UDF 2.01 and 1.50 images containing plain files and directories,
much like an iso9660 image made with mkisofs, but with better
support for long filenames and extended character sets.
The UDF integration excists of the following files:
- udf: UDF filesystem add-on
- i-udf-ds: UDF DriveSetup add-on
- makeudfimage: command-line program for creating UDF volume
images that may be burned to a CD or DVD.
How To Burn a UDF CD
- Put all the files and folders your want on the CD into a single
folder somewhere. Name the folder udf, the full pathname
for that folder would then be /boot/home/Desktop/udf.
- Create a UDF image from the files and folders of interest (a
UDF image is a single file that can be written directly to a CD
to create a UDF filesystem on that CD which contains your files
and folders). You need to choose a name for the image file, as
well as a volume name that will be displayed by Tracker when you
mount your soon-to-be-burned CD.
Let's say you choose /boot/home/Desktop/mystuff.udf as
the image name and My Stuff as the volume name. You would
then run makeudfimage from a Terminal
prompt as follows (note that this should all be on one line, even
though your viewer may decide to word-wrap it):
makeudfimage /boot/home/Desktop/udf /boot/home/Desktop/mystuff.udf
My Stuff
This should merrily add all your files and folders to the image
and proclaim success at the end.
- Burn the image to a CD. You can for instance use CD
Manager, but there are other ways to do it as well. To burn
the image, place a blank CD in your burner, and then start CD
Manager. Click the Tools menu, and choose Write Data
CD Image File... . A window titled Start Data CD Image
File Recording should appear. Click the Browse button
and select your image file (in our example: /boot/home/Desktop/mystuff.udf)
from the Select Image File dialog window. Change the selected
Action from Write Simulation to Write, and then
click the Start Writing button. CD Manager will then burn
your image to the blank CD. When the recording is done, close
CD Manager.
- Mount the CD
UDF or iso9660 ?
The DriveSetup add-on, 'i-udf-ds', is named as it is with an 'i-'
prefix to put it alphabetically before the iso9660 DriveSetup add-on.
But if you insert an UDF/iso9660 hybrid disc in your computer, the
UDF add-on will get first dibs at identifying the disc. This is usually
desirable, as UDF, as mentioned above, has better support for long
filenames and extended character sets. If, for some reason, you'd
prefer to default to iso9660 in those cases, just rename 'i-udf-ds'
to 'udf-ds'. |