Re: Making HFS CDs from Windows PCs

["Bryan Villados" <news002@macgeek.org>]

Interesting. This process works! I don't have a CD-ROM drive on my Apple II
equipment, but I tested the CD-R on my eMac and it read it fine.

--- Bryan


"vector" <abuse@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I thought it would be nice to make for my IIgs HFS CDs of files I
> downloaded from Asimov and Ground, but I don't have a Mac.  This is
> usually a big problem.  Not today!  I had an idea about what to do, and
> it seems to work!
>
> First, use HFV Explorer to make a 640 MB HFS-formatted disk image, then
> populate the file with whatever you'd like burned to CD.  Next, break out
> Nero.  Select the File menu, then the item "Burn Image". Ask for
> displaying all files (*.*) since Nero expects files with the NRG suffix,
> locate your image file and load it. Answer OK to the Foreign Image File
> prompt (if Nero doesn't recognize a true ISO image).  You then have to
> specify the parameters of the ISO file (this holds true for all HFS
> images): Type of image: Data Mode 1. Block size: 2048. File precursor and
> image trailer: 0 length. No Scrambled and no Swapped.  If the program
> complains that there are errors in the image file, click on the button
> "Ignore" and launch the burning.
>
> Voila!  HFS CDs made with Windows!  I tested the results on my IIgs, and
> it worked just great.  Of course, this method is virtually guaranteed to
> also work with HFV files made or modified under Basilisk II, though I
> didn't test that.
>
> vector