Bugzilla – Bug 9204
windows html page display when inserting the cd
Last modified: 2011-04-28 20:07:03 UTC
I wrote some comments and suggestions to discuss list and nobody answered so I add them to bugzilla. http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-discuss/2005-June/011384.html http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-discuss/2005-June/011390.html
If those are still issues, could you file seperate bugs for each? master bugs are a bit difficult to handle...
Just looked through my URLS. They were for 0.9.4 ISO, seems my suggestions were implemented. For example I implemented suggested names for boxes in our netconf. :-) I only missing some html page for Microsoft Windows: 6) Something for Source Mage propagation: We have a patch for framebuffer with raven. It could be great if instead of penguin the raven was displayed. :-) ISO should have a label (Source Mage) displayed in the Microsoft Windows. When the ISO is inserted in Microsoft Windows something should be displayed. At least html page about Source Mage GNU/Linux. (PR team). ISO should have support for Microsoft Windows file system (Joliet file system?, mkisofs with option -J). Now users can see only 8.3 capitals.
Is this bug still relevant to the current ISOs?
Changing priority to enhancement. Does anyone still want html to be displayed when inserting the ISO in a windows machine?
Created attachment 7207 [details] autorun.bat
Created attachment 7208 [details] autorun.inf
Created attachment 7209 [details] cdrom.ico
Just found out the solution. ISO needs only 4 files and when iso inserted into Windows box, default browser displays index.html. ISO needs (in root) autorun.bat, autorun.inf, cdrom.ico and index.html. autorun.bat: @echo Load "index.html"... @start index.html @exit autorun.inf: [autorun] open=autorun.bat icon=cdrom.ico i created cdrom.ico (source mage logo) and you can save for example www.sourcemage.org as index.html and copy to install.iso.
Copying the main page of sourcemage.org as index.html is actually a bad idea. As our main page is currently just a wiki page, and the vast majority of all the links are relative, those links will fail. If you want an html page put on the ISO, please create one. Also, do all of these files really have to go in the root directory of the ISO? I'm not sure I want Windows-specific files littering the root directory (or if anyone else would want it). It might just confuse users.
There has been no activity on this bug for 2 years. I'm closing it as WONTFIX since no one seems to want this enough to actually implement anything for it.