From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 29 18:39:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E0C937B417 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:39:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 83200 invoked by uid 100); 30 Jan 2002 02:39:21 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15447.23769.147840.134210@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:39:21 -0600 To: Brian T.Schellenberger Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs for learning about CD burning? In-Reply-To: <122588246@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-RC-i386) 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 Brian T.Schellenberger types: > On Tuesday 29 January 2002 07:46 am, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > > 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.) > > AUGGHH! This made no sense. Let's try it again: > > Burncd doesn't takeinput from stdin. In theory you should be able to use a > NAMED pipe, but in practice when I've this it makes coasters. Actually, you had it right the first time. I've done: mkisofs -o - . | burncd data - fixate and that worked just fine. I do tend to do it on an otherwise unloaded machine, though. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message