Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:56:05 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: burncd usage Message-ID: <44psfzgoiy.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20060720.162500.375.378159@webmail50.nyc.untd.com> (gs's message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:24:00 GMT") References: <20060720.162500.375.378159@webmail50.nyc.untd.com>
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"gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> writes: > I tried to use burncd on my FreeBSD 6.1 system and it failed. > The command I typed is: > burncd -t -v -f /dev/acd0 ISO9660 file-name > and I got the error message "no data format selected". I thought the > "ISO9660" was the data format. What is the data format? "data" is easiest choice in this case. > to burn a CDROM ? Probably the man page should give samples, > highlighting the data format. It does, in fact. If your "file-name" were file1, then the first example in the manual would be exactly what you would need to type. > All the man page examples wrote to the default device and still > included it in the command line. You should write to a non-default > CDROM device, and for at least 1 default CDROM device example, don't > have the device designation in the command. Sounds reasonable. Go ahead and submit it. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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