From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 29 4:48:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70FA837B405 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 04:48:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 29 Jan 2002 07:48:16 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 87E264048; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 07:46:55 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Sue Blake Subject: Re: docs for learning about CD burning? Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 07:46:55 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <15446.32390.46324.479607@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15446.32390.46324.479607@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020129124655.87E264048@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sue Blake types: > > There's got to be a more direct way of doing task 2, and the list > > archives mention dd but everyone seems to be arguing about exactly how > > to do it. So far I see that you can make an image of a data (or > > audio??) CD with a command like > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048 > > but I don't know whether I can just change it to of=/dev/cdwriter > > to do the whole job in one action, or use a pipe to a burncd command, > > or does it only work via an ISO image on the hard disk? burncd doesn's take input from stdin. In theory you should be able to use a pipe, but in practice when I've tried this it makes coasters. (That is, the disks don't work right.) -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message