From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 9 20:57:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A85A106566B for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:57:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6444F8FC0C for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:57:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 7440 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2009 20:57:12 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Jun 2009 20:57:12 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id ED03E5084E; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:57:11 -0400 (EDT) To: carmel_ny@hotmail.com References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:57:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Carmel's message of "Tue\, 9 Jun 2009 16\:31\:10 -0400") Message-ID: <444oupyvko.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Question Subject: Re: Problem with burncd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Question List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:57:13 -0000 Carmel writes: > I just installed FreeBSD-7.2. I attempted to burn a CD; however, > when the burn completes, I receive this message: > > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE); Input/output error. > > This is the command line: > > # burncd -ev -s max fixate data notes.txt > > Now, if I do not use the 'fixate' command, no error message is > displayed; however, the CD is not readable. I have no idea what the > problem is. I have used brand new CD disks that work fine on my Windows > PCs. > > Is there a better CD-Burner program that I could use instead? First of all, you need to make a filesystem to burn onto the CD. I find it very unlikely that you really want to burn a text file directly. I suggest you start by reading the documentation on the subject: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/