Burning GS CD-ROMs

["Joel" <joelbuckley54.nospam.@hotmail.com>]

I've burned a number of Apple II Cds from my Windows 98 computer.

You can burn it in (High Sierra) ISO 9660? format, but all the filenames
have ";1" appended to them and usually have to be copied to the gs hard
drive and renamed to be used. But its a quick way to transfer megabytes of
files to the GS.

I put a SCSi card in the IBM. You can just copy the IIgs hard drive to a
CD-ROM. It will retain all the partition information. The key thing about a
IIgs is that the file structure on a SCSI hard drive and CD-ROM are
identical.

I also manually created a partition table and concatenated multiple ProDOS
partition images to be burned to a CD. The structure is fairly simple:
partition type, starting block and number of blocks.

Kegs talks about partition table support in its docs, but the Windows ports
I've used don't do this (at least I could get them to). You have to assign
each ProDOS partition separately to a slot and drive (though you can use
pretty big drive numbers)

I never used HFS partitions much. You can probably put up to 63? ProDOS
partitions (max 32M each) on a disk. I've done as many as 40, just to check
it. But after 30 the finder desktop gets full, and dumps the remaining all
on op of each other.
For a CD, 20 or so 32M ProDOS partitions would pretty much fill the CD. You
want to make sure none of the partitions on the CD have the same name as
those on your hard drive. Though if you boot off the CD instead of the hard
drive you might be allowed to rename the hard drive partitions. I think it
asks if you want to rename or eject the CD partitions (and obviously you
can't rename it from the GS.)