Re: Perhaps OT: how to make a custom CD that opens upon insertion to a window with custom background and icons
Re: Perhaps OT: how to make a custom CD that opens upon insertion to a window with custom background and icons
- Subject: Re: Perhaps OT: how to make a custom CD that opens upon insertion to a window with custom background and icons
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:40:21 -0600
Entity Bill Planey spoke thus:
> I want to make a CUSTOM CD (not .dmg or image FILE) and have the CD, when
> mounting on a Macintosh system, open its top-level directory and display the
> window with the custom icons and picture background that I have created.
You can't.
Mac doesn't have all those security holes Windows does. The consolation is,
Mac CDs are so much easier to open by doubleclicking the mounted disk icon.
> I
> know that you can do this easily with a .dmg FILE but I want the finished CD
> to work this way. I have seen some message boards that suggest that
> FireStorm can do this, but I suspect it is only for .dmg files.
> I have already succeeded in making the .dmg that has all the icons and
> picture background using Disk Utility; I just want it to BE a CD (as opposed
> to a .dmg file ON a CD) that I can distribute.
> Will this require me to get into unix commands? Is there something in
> AppleScript that can help with this?
I don't know if it's possible to force the root folder to open in a custom
view, since it always defaults to the OS default. It will always open in
unstyled icon view. I don't know why diskimages get to open in a styled
window but CDs don't. If you figure out how to do it let us know how.
You can make a CD with all the custom subfolders you want, since that
information is stored on the disk itself.
To create and burn disks using shell commands you should type this in
Terminal:
man diskutil
But I'm sure you already knew that.
-- Gnarlie
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