Re: [flasher] OT: How do I burn a CD without its generic icon?

[Brad Bechtel]

>Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to burn a CD

>without its generic icon?


Just set up the icon and layout as you want it to be in your staging 

area before burning the CD.  Here's a rough guide of how to do it 

using Toast 4:


1) Run the lowest supported OS you can on the Mac on which you'll be 

burning the CDs.  This will ensure that the icons and layout will be 

consistent  for higher OS versions.  If you burn a CD using OS 9.1, 

its icons and layout may not be as you expected for a user running OS 

8.6.

2) Launch Toast.  Choose Utilities > Create Temporary Partition and 

create a temporary disc.  Make it large enough to hold all the files 

you'll be burning, but not too large (maximum size=640Mb).

3) Quit Toast.  When prompted if you want to delete the temporary 

partition, choose No.  You should now have the temporary partition 

mounted on your desktop.

4) Copy the files you want to burn into this temporary partition. 

Add an icon, rename the partition, and/or arrange the layout as you 

wish.  Run Norton Utilities' Disc Doctor on the partition to make 

sure everything's kosher.

5) Launch Toast again.  Burn the CD from the temporary partition.

6) Test on a different Mac.  Swear.  Throw that one away.  Make the 

changes you forgot to make before.  Burn again.

7) Repeat until satisified.


You can also use the temporary partition as a Mac-only partition when 

making a Mac/ISO Hybrid.  This will allow you to have a disc where 

only the Mac stuff is visible on a Mac, and the ISO stuff visible on 

Windows or other OS versions.  Tip: in your Settings, set the Naming 

option to Allow Macintosh names for both the Mac and ISO portions of 

the disc.  This allows long names on both platforms.