Autoplay / Autorun CD/DVD on Mac OS X or Windows

To accomplish you will need the following:

Access to a Windows machine
Access to a Mac
Arainia’s Gizmo Central
- URL: http://arainia.com/software/gizmo/
- You will have to reboot after the install for the CD/DVD driver to work.
A basic understanding of how the Mac terminal works
Depending on what version you have on your Mac you may need the OS X Developer Tools (Xcode)
- https://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/
- You will need an Apple ID to obtain these
- You can check if you have SetFile from the terminal using the command “which SetFile” (without the quotes)

Steps:

Part I

In Windows:

1. Prepare Windows data in a folder.

2. Create autorun.inf, place in root folder.

// NOTE: This file MUST be created on a Windows machine or else it will not work!

// The reasoning behind this is the End Of Line (EOL) is different on each system.

autorun.inf contents look like:

open=[exepath\]exefile [param1 [param2] …] // executes selected file

icon=iconfilename[,index] // Icon displayed, can be from file or

// simply be an icon (.ico) file

label=LabelText // Name of drive displayed in windows.

shell // Shell execute a command

**********Windows 8 or later**************

UseAutoPlay=1 // Autorun on use 1 to turn it off use 0

Sample autorun.inf file:

[autorun]

open=htmlfile.html // This will open the file “htmlfile.html” in the current directory

icon=myicon.ico // This icon will be displayed as the icon of the CD/DVD

label=MyDrive // This will result in the name of the CD/DVD to be “MyDrive”

UseAutoPlay=1 // Enables autorun on Windows 8

Part II

On the Mac:

1. Put the Windows and Mac files in the same folder

2. Set the windows how you want them to open on when the CD/DVD is inserted.

3. Adding a customized background to the Mac window

Make a folder with the main folder and have it open separately from the main window. For simplicity name it “background”
Put the image you want to act as the background in it.
Press Command + J while focused on the window
Drag the image into the Picture box close the background folder

4. Open the terminal and enter the following

chflags hidden “/path/to/background folder”

// this hides the folder without having to rename it

5. Make files invisible

Use SetFile to accomplish this, it’s a part of the Mac Developer Tools

To find SetFile from the terminal use the following command (without the quotes):

“which SetFile”

This gives you the path to SetFile

To make files invisible

SetFile -a V /path/to/file/or/folder/you_want_to_hide

6. Create the ISO from your main folder:

hdiutil makehybrid /source/folder/name -o outputFileName.iso