Everyone knows how to burn files onto a CD. When you play such CDs, you access the files individually through My Computer. What I want to know is, how do you create CD-ROMs with an index, much like a home page, where you can read what's on the CD-ROM and pick what you want to watch/read/listen to? Does anyone know?
1. Create a file called AUTORUN.INF 2. In AUTORUN.INF, include something like: [autorun] open=start.html icon=start.ico 3. Place AUTORUN.INF in the root directory of your CD-ROM Of course, you'll need to create start.html and start.ico and place those files in the same directory as your AUTORUN.INF file.
Forcefield, excellent response, man! However, please clarify a few things . . . That AUTORUN.INFO file . . . Do I just create it in a HTML editor? Is the following exactly what I have to put in AUTORUN.INFO: [autorun] open=start.html icon=start.ico Is start.ico just an image? start.html is the home page/index, right? Can I configure it how I want in CSS/XHTML? And what do you mean by root directory of your CD-ROM? CDs don't have directories. What kind of CD do I actually use for this? Thanks for the help, man, and apologies for the questions.
I should have explained everything in more detail. The AUTORUN.INF file can be created in Notepad. Create a new .txt document and include everything that I mentioned in my previous post. Save this file as "AUTORUN.INF". start.html is the main index file that's launched automatically. This file contains your XHTML/CSS. Make sure everything is in the root directory. So, in other words, E:\AUTORUN.INF, E:\start.html, etc. Where E:\ is your CD-ROM drive. As for start.ico, don't worry about it. It's totally optional. To burn your CD, just use a regular CD-R or other blank media.
You're welcome! If it gets too complicated, there's also software that will do it for you. If you have any other questions, let me know. Oh, and thanks for the rep.