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: Bill Planey <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:59:29 -0500
- Thread-topic: Perhaps OT: how to make a custom CD that opens upon insertion to a window with custom background and icons
OK - I can live with that. I will burn a CD with a Read Me file that
instructs the user to double-click the DMG file also on the CD, and that
will display the way I want.
Thanks,
Bill Planey
On 9/21/05 4:40 PM, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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