From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 23 00:43:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A238216A402 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:43:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3812C13C45E for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:43:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434E1DDFF2; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:22:33 +1100 (EST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0A17A1A9C94; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:52:33 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:52:33 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: UCTC Sysadmin Message-ID: <20070323002232.GA75891@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4602D994.3080801@transpacific.net> <20070322214252.GB22055@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <46030E6A.4000308@transpacific.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46030E6A.4000308@transpacific.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: Jerry McAllister , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Mark Busby Subject: Re: SOLVED: Re: Problems with "burncd" - cannot mount result on unix or windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:43:26 -0000 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Line length unified. On Thursday, 22 March 2007 at 16:16:58 -0700, UCTC Sysadmin wrote: > In looking at the documentation for "cdrecord", the examples showed > a two-step process of making an ISO image then burning it. > > Here's my deal: > > NEVER HAVING BURNED a CD or DVD on FreeBSD before - I go to the > documentation to FIND OUT HOW and there really is no HOW You mention documentation above, but you don't say what you're referring to. > So I look in vain for > > "What you need to do in the kernel if anything to support burning CDs/DVDs" > "What additional support libraries or software would be needed" > "The stepwise process for burning CDs or DVDs" What's wrong with the information in the handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html > So THE FAQ and/or HOWTO SUCKS, is the problem. I see two problems, both of them different: - You don't say what you read, and what you didn't understand about it. - You didn't submit an update. > If that offends purists, I think what's more likely to offend is a complaint without substantiation. I'm not saying that there are no errors in the documentation--of course there are--but how can we fix them (if they exist) based on your rant? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGAx3IIubykFB6QiMRAp+3AJ9KzlUeFTor01dBE0HO3tUa4y3ZzgCfYOUQ QXFY/N7KmIpEeMUT0Vuldpk= =oNkv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--