Autorun CD's

[Croc Hunter]

What do you need or use to create autorun CD's?. I want to put a html website on CD and have it kick off from the index/home page. Any ideas?.

[Naveen]

Create a file ....

AUTORUN.INF


place this in it

[AutoRun]
open=index.html
icon=index.html,0


The user should have auto run enabled ..else it wont work.

[Naveen]

you should refer to this ..

http://www.graficalicus.com/tutorials/Autorun/Basic_Autorun1.htm

[Croc Hunter]

Thanx Naveen

Just incase someone searches for this I'll explain. That tute was better than any rubbish I had found. However when I tried their free d/l it adds a 500kb.exe file to the cd. :/ God Knows whats in it. And it wouldn't work. After a little messin around I found the best way to burn a failsafe autorun was using an .exe This way D:/ E:/ F:/ or any drive the cd is in will be used as source and will kick off.

I have slaves and multiple drives my cd burner/player is E:

[autrorun]
open=default.htm

Alone in an autorun.ini file does't work in my case. I made a booter.exe 39kb and an icon.ico (ico not necessecary but looks good). The booter.exe searches for the default.htm and refers all to <src_dir> (ico simply appears as the cd icon) These 4 files along with the website, need to be in the cd root.

autorun.inf (with)
[autorun]
icon=icon.ico
open=booter.exe
booter.exe
default.htm
icon.ico

It works like a dream. Now I can have a week off at the beach. :cool:
See ya's.. whoot whoot.. shakin that ***.. whoot whoot.. :D

[mrmagill]

Thanx Naveen

After a little messin around I found the best way to burn a failsafe autorun was using an .exe This way D:/ E:/ F:/ or any drive the cd is in will be used as source and will kick off.

Would you be interested in sharing this little booter, or is it too system-specific to share? I found this thread while looking for info on the subject. Since I often send CDs to very poor countries, I'm looking for most compatible way to do this possible, and your booter sounds perfect. I have one now that I have found, which is freeware, but its also 700-800k and is not really intended for what I'm doing, just happens I can "trick" it into working. I lack the programming skills to do this myself.

[Bloodeye]

mrmagill - If you can't get the booter program from Croc Hunter, you may want to give WinOpen a try. I've used it before and it works great.

WinOpen 3.1a (7k)
http://www.duckware.com/winopen/index.html

[Croc Hunter]

Here you go. This .zip has all 3 files.

autorun.inf kicks off the booter
booter.exe searches and loads the drives default.htm
icon.ico is simply an icon visable when in windows explorer

You simply put all 3 onto the CD with your website on it and rename your homepage to default.htm

[oatesj77]

pc & mac autorun cd's
haven't tried this yet, but i'll get to it sooner or later.
here's the tut autorun (http://www.were-here.com/content/templates/articles.asp?articleid=140&zoneid=7)

[muijefr]

For a long time I have had a free autorun set available on my site @:
http://www.the-ebiz.net/autoplay/index.html
It is Windows specific. :rolleyes:

The problem, as I have seen it, what version of Windows is being used and how to mitigate the various applications that might render the CD file content. The following is the README file that is downloadable with the autoplay zip file. The big clue here is START. START is devise independent and will initiate the user default application for the file type specified. :D


The original AutoRun.Inf content:

[autorun]
OPEN=start MyFile.xxx
ICON=favicon.ico

Use WordPad or some other text editor to change the name of the
AutoRun.Inf MyFile.xxx document/file you want to AutoPlay.
The .xxx suffix might be .doc, .ppt, .pdf, .xls, .zoo or any legitimate
file extension including .html. Your edited OPEN= line might look like this:

OPEN=start index.doc

You may change the ICON= name and/or content or delete the
line completely. If you include it, along with an actual icon file,
it will be displayed as the viewer's CD ROM drive icon.
Your edited ICON= line might look like this:

ICON=MyLogo.ico

After editing the AutoRun.Inf file include it, the icon file if used,
and the .xxx file you want to AutoPlay in the root segment
of your CD ROM, the product content, and burn. The AutoRun.Inf and
the icon file must be burned in CD ROM's root segment. Your product
need not reside in the root segment. If it is not convenient to include
the file you want to AutoPlay in the root segment you can specify a folder
and subfolders in which your initial document/file resides.
Your OPEN= line might look like this:

OPEN=start Find_Me/index.doc

When your CD ROM is viewed "Start" will display a diagnostic screen
that immediately disappears if no errors are detected. If an error
is detected, surprise, surprise, an error message will be displayed.
The most common error is the viewer does not have an application
client assigned to the .xxx file type you are starting. Click the
downloaded ViewError.html to see an example.


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