Date: 06 Oct 2005 13:00:51 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: burning multisession cd's and bootable windows isos Message-ID: <44irwazikc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <000301c5ca95$ef07f0a0$0900a8c0@satellite> References: <000301c5ca95$ef07f0a0$0900a8c0@satellite>
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"Dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> writes: > Hello, > I've got two questions on burning cdr/cdrw disks. I'm using freebsd > 5.4-p6 and using cdrtools for cdr/rw and dvd+rw-tools for dvdr/rw > burning. > My first question has to do with multisession disk burning, burn > some, take it out, go back later and write more to the disk until it's > full. I've not been able to make this work with either cd's or dvd's > and would appreciate a tutorial or howto on multisession burning. >From my crib sheet: for cdrecord: dv=/dev/acd0 export CDR_DEVICE=1,0,0 filenames=be-well.`date "+%y%m%d"`* # first session mkisofs -R $filenames |cdrecord -v driveropts=burnfree -multi -data -tao - #other sessions OFST=`cdrecord -msinfo` echo $OFST mkisofs -M $dv -C $OFST -R $filenames |cdrecord -v driveropts=burnfree -tao -multi -data - Season to taste. > My second question regards burning a windows xp disk under > bsd. I've got one, a vanilla xp pro disk and i want to slipstream > it. I copy the files from the disk to my windows hard disk, slipstream > them with servicepack two plus some additional hardware drivers, now > i've got an xpsp2+drivers installation tree. I copy that over to a > network share, log on to my bsd machine, and i have no idea on how to > use mkisofs to make a bootable iso to burn to disk. I've tried just > making an iso of the installtree and burning that with cdrecord, made > some coasters that's about it. My goal is to have a bootable disk thag > acts just like the original vanilla xp disk, boots right in to the > install and so forth. Have you tried just copying the filesystem image, instead of the files? [But make sure you get all of the tracks, if there are more than one.]
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