Autorun

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 18:32 -0300, Gabriel Patiño wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:43:07 +1030, squareyes <squareyes at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have made up a CD that I would like to auto open a html file
> > when it's put in the CD drive, is this possible, and if so how is it done?
> 
> if you want to 'autorn' the CD when you put it on a Linux machine,
> well... i think there's no such thing in Linux as autorun.
> That is just a M$ feature. If windows finds some file (i think it was
> autorun.ini or something like that), it runs that file.
> 
> There are so many combination to run on a Linux system, I mean window
> managers, consoles, environments, even platforms, that it should be
> really difficult to make that works in a usefull way.
> 
> -- 
> Gabriel E. Patiño

I have not tried it myself (don't have any blank CD's left ! :-/ ), but
according to this page :
http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/6/cddvd-creation-with-nautilus

you can just do it the "windows" way, by putting a plain text "autorun"
file at the root of the CD.


HTH


--
Vince