From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 21 11:54:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBAD16A4DD for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:54:50 +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 DCDC343D46 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:54:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 6299 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2006 11:54:49 -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 ; 21 Jul 2006 11:54:49 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 5FF712842A; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:54:48 -0400 (EDT) To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" References: <20060720.162500.375.378159@webmail50.nyc.untd.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:54:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060720.162500.375.378159@webmail50.nyc.untd.com> (gs's message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:24:00 GMT") Message-ID: <44r70fgol3.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:54:50 -0000 "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/