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From: robsch@robkaos.ping.de (Robert Schien)
Subject: Re: How to create ISO9660 filesystem?
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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 09:45:01 GMT
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Andrew Gillham (gillham@andrews.edu) wrote:

: Hi!  I' d like to create an ISO9660 filesystem...  To be
: more specific, I want to create a CD-ROM image so I can 
: write it out to a CD-ROM mastering system we have.

: Could somebody explain what I need to do?  I imagine I
: need to create a ~650MB file (no prob, empty 1.2GB), then
: I need to create a filesystem on that image?
: I know how to use the NetBSD "vnconfig" stuff to mount an
: image of a floppy disk, but I don't know how to go about
: disklabeling/newfs'ing/etc a 650MB image so that it
: becomes an ISO9660 filesystem!  (Jordan?  You know all about
: this don't you? :-) ) 
: Basically I'm trying to make a CD-ROM that I can mount on
: a DOS/Windows box *and* on my unix boxes.  If anyone has
: software, disktab entries, or any suggestions, I'd really
: appreciate it!

As far as I know there is a tool called 'mkisofs'.
It should do what you want. Ask archie.

Robert