[WinTroll]

In Windows, there is a specific bunch of files that must reside at the root of CD if you want to do this.

How does one do this on a MAC?

I want to burn an HFS (native MAC) CD but when inserted, rather than the bland old CD icon, it shows one of my choosing.

Thanks in advance!

[WJMoore]

First things first it's Mac not MAC. MAC is a networking term amongst other things.

On to the topic at hand: I haven't tried it but the way I imagine you would do this is mount the blank in the Finder, get info on the CD that shows up, copy - paste an icon of your choosing to it, put stuff on disk and burn. Now that is how it should work, whether or not it does is a homework assignment for you.

[Diggory Laycock]

If you are burning form the finder - when the Blank CD appears in the Finder, you can paste an icon on to the CD and it should appear on the burned CD. (I think, haven't burned a CD with a custom icon for a while)

If you are burning from Toast - I'm not sure.

[- - e r i k - -]

If you burn it from Toast, just put a custom icon on the top folder you are burning.

[superblue]

Originally posted by WJMoore:
First things first it's Mac not MAC. MAC is a networking term amongst other things.

I must read this picky comment half a dozen times a week. Yeah, MAC grates a bit, but you'll never educate everyone, and is it really such a big deal? hell, it's not like we're destroying Apple's branding strategy with a few capital letters on a forum. Let it go

[cybergoober]

Not so sure the copy/paste technique works, but placing the icon file you want on the root of the CD and naming it .VolumeIcon.icns should work.
I do, however, know for a fact it works with Disk Images. I've got a bunch of custom icons for all my disk images that I created in that manner.