How To Use Mkisofs?

[supereater14]

i am trying to convert a fat filesystem iso file to cdfs. i heard that you can use mkisofs to make it into cdfs/iso9660. how?

Edited April 15, 2010 by supereater14

[Sparda]

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl8_mkisofs.htm

If there are many files or long names or large files you might want to consider using UFS instead of ISO9660.

Why do you want to take the contents of a whole file system and make a read-only media disk image out of it?

[supereater14]

i still don't get exactly how to use it. i am hoping to make a cdfs filesystem on a usb drive

[Sparda]

I'm not sure any operating systems besides not-Windows will be able to use that. In fact *tinker tinker tinker* it turns out, having just writen a ISO9660 FS to a memory stick, that Ubuntu doesn't care that you are using a read only FS intended for use with optical media and thus it works (expected). Windows doesn't have a wtf clue to do with it. It insists that it needs formatting (also expected).

What do you want to do with this? All you can do is put some thing on it hat is permanent (at the file system level) and only works under not-Windows.

[supereater14]

i wanted it to be readable by windows... i tried an alternative

nero supports defining an iso file as a cd drive

i dded it over to the flash drive

windows didn't accept it