Auto-starting a CD on Mac?

[(Pete Cresswell)]

I'm using a freebie called ShellExe for Windows. Works a-ok.

Is there a functional equivalent for Mac? Linux?

 

[Toby Inkster]

I'm using a freebie called ShellExe for Windows. Works a-ok.
Is there a functional equivalent for Mac? Linux?

Linux is a sensible OS so will not run a (potentially dangerous)
executable from a CD automatically.

I would guess that Mac OS is the same in this respect.

 

[brucie]

In alt.html (Pete Cresswell) said:

I'm using a freebie called ShellExe for Windows. Works a-ok.

you don't need it. win has its own giggly thingy called shellexecute
already built in.

Is there a functional equivalent for Mac?

don't they have a key on the side you need to wind up?

Linux?

one step at a time. first you need to configure linux to recognize you
even have a CD type device. if its a dvd+r/rw you'll have to spend days
on the net looking for a driver that doesn't exist because the drive is
less than 5 years old.

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

one step at a time. first you need to configure linux to recognize you
even have a CD type device.

Very funny. My Sony CRX320E DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive was detected perfectly
by both Mandrake 10.1's and Fedora Core 2's installers, ditto for
whatever's in my old Dell box and the crappy $200 box I bought at
Wal-Mart to test things on without worrying if it blows up.

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Leif K-Brooks said:

Very funny.

thankyou. i try my best to entertain

My Sony CRX320E DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive

i have a generic special

was detected perfectly by both Mandrake 10.1's

since version 7 the install program crashed when detecting the HDD. only
a few months ago i purchased a new HDD so i could install MD10. but
there were other issues with it that made it unusable.

and Fedora Core 2's installers,

FD1 totally trashed my setup upgrading from RH9 so i didn't bother
trying FD2

ditto for whatever's in my old Dell box and the crappy $200 box I
bought at Wal-Mart to test things on without worrying if it blows up.

RH9 doesn't have a problem with cd-r/rw or playing a dvd but it wont
burn a dvd.

mute point anyway. i cant connect to the net using linux so i don't even
know why i still have it installed.

 

[Dylan Parry]

As an authority on the subject, brucie proclaimed:

FD1 totally trashed my setup upgrading from RH9 so i didn't bother
trying FD2

One tip I'd give here is to back-up your important stuff and do a full
install rather than an upgrade. Upgrades are quite dodgy with Linux (as
they are with Windows) and a fresh install is always better.

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Dylan Parry said:

One tip I'd give here is to back-up your important stuff

i didn't have any important stuff but thankfully i had the sense to
backup configuration files that took days to write and get working
properly.

and do a full install rather than an upgrade.

usually my first choice but ... well ... it was a new toy and i wanted
to play with it now! not after 3hrs of clean installing.

Upgrades are quite dodgy with Linux (as they are with Windows) and a
fresh install is always better.

so very true

 

[Neal]

mute point anyway.

Can't talk?

"Moot" point, I believe...

 

[Dylan Parry]

As an authority on the subject, brucie proclaimed:

i didn't have any important stuff but thankfully i had the sense to
backup configuration files that took days to write and get working
properly.

Yes, very sensible. I usually backup fstab, httpconf, xorg.conf
(XF86Config) and a couple of other things like shell scripts for stuff I
want to open on startup etc. I always forget to backup something, and
don't realise until it's too late -- last time it was the local copies of
all my websites

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Neal said:

Can't talk?

stupid newsreader thingy should have picked up what i meant not what i
said.

"Moot" point, I believe...

i'll moot you if you're not careful with a blunt pair of scissors.

 

[Neal]

i'll moot you if you're not careful with a blunt pair of scissors.

All I'm getting is rage from you, brucie!

Where's the love? The love!

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Neal said:

All I'm getting is rage from you, brucie!

why are you surprised? typical insensitive man, needs everything
explained to them.

Where's the love? The love!

wheres the phone call? the phone call! GF is back in only 2 days