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Old 12-09-2002
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I have an odd issue.

I am trying to copy some files/folders to my linux box via a burned CD which I created on my mac. When I browse the files on the mac (or my windows box), everything looks fine (some of the folder names start with a capital letter, which is needed for everything to work right - adding to a photo web page which was auto-created with iPhoto), but when I mount the CD on my linux box (mandrake) and browse the files/folders everything is in lower case. I'm not sure what I'm doing/not doing to have this issue, because when I initally created the photo site, and copied files (via CD) to the linux box, everything worked great.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
# 2  
Old 12-09-2002
Are you using MacOSX?
If so, it may be the filesystem - I'm just guessing, because I don't have a CD burner in mine so I can't test it.
The default filesystem is "case preserving", but not case sensitive...
# 3  
Old 12-10-2002
Yes - I am using Mac OS X - but I'm not sure that the problem is with the burn, because when I view the files on the burned CD on my mac, and a windows box - in fact any other computer that I have, the capital letters are preserved - it is only when I browse the CD on my linux box that the capital letters have been "lower cased".

I have been putting off rebooting my linux box (I'm trying to see how long I can keep it running - so far 75 days), but will reboot if anyone thinks that might help me...
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Old 12-10-2002
I don't use linux, but I found this mount man page.

What options did you use when you mounted the cd? It looks like "norock,map" would give exactly the results that you are seeing. You need to mount that cd in rock ridge mode, which is sometimes called RRIP.
# 5  
Old 12-10-2002
Well, I mounted the cd with this command:

mount /mnt/cdrom

no options - this is the same way I have mounted in the past with no problems until just recently.

should I try this?:

mount -map=o /mnt/cdrom

I'm not at my linux box now, so I'll have to try it after work tonight - I'll post my results then - thanks for the tip!
# 6  
Old 12-10-2002
By default, mount doesn't add those options. They may have been added to /etc/fstab at some point...

Try:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

By default, it should see both Rock Ridge extensions, and MS Joliet extensions...
# 7  
Old 12-11-2002
ok, i tried the mount command suggested by LivinFree (thanks for the advice)- did not make any difference. I tried rebooting (sigh), and that didn't help. I even tried burning another CD - still not working. I really am running out of options... I guess that I will try burning the CD on my windows box, but I doubt that will do anything - I don't think it's a problem with the burn - seems to be isolated to the linux box... I could always try to FTP! (might have to).

The deal is that it worked fine just 2 months ago!!

A thought:

The CD that I am having trouble with has quite a deep directory structure (3 dirs deep before the caps start) - not sure if that is the issue - don't think so tho - i'll try more testing...

Ok - maybe it does have something to do with the burn - I found the CD that I made a couple of months ago - it has a different dir structure, and the caps are THERE. Could it have to do with long directory names??
 
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