Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:17:36 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is this IT or not/ Message-ID: <20071123211736.GA98190@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071123075012.GA91358@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20071122120047.2815B16A421@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1071122234219.29575A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <20071122234952.GA65071@thought.org> <20071123075012.GA91358@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:50:12AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:49:52PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I did have a "vfs." entry in the wong file; that has seemed to > > make a big difference. On my Ubuntu server most of these > > utilities Just-Work. I would like to burn CD's and maybe a > > DvD or two. But k3b seems way too far. Do you--or anyone > > else on-List--know if the gnome burner (*Baker) works out of > > the box? ---I realize that our speciality is as-servers. > > With stability. But since I'm building a new main machine > > that is not my DNS/web/server, I'd rather stick with FBSD. > > All those graphical programs are just front-ends for > - cdrecord (CDs) > - growisofs (fro DVDs, from the dvd+rw-tools package) > > So try and get those to work from the command-line first. Then install > k3b or baker or whatever. > > My usual invocation for cdrecord for data disks is: > cdrecord -v -eject -dao speed=8 driveropts=burnfree dev=1,1,0 -pad \ > -data file.iso > > You'll have to adjust the dev part by looking at the output of > 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Cdrecord requires atapicam or a SCSI burner, btw. (And to think that for years I was SCSI-*only*. Darn!) What is "aptapicam" exactly? If I add it to my kernel GENERIC will other things blow up, [:-)]? I've been going to<->fro with this whole tthing... BSD is basically a hard-core geek operating system. for servers, like my DNS server; it doen't make the best "desktop" OS. ...Still, it'd be nice to be able to burn the few CD's that I *do* copy on tao. Now, am i lazy or am i Lazy? > > For burning music, use -audio instead of -data, and feed it a bunch of > WAV files. See cdrecord(1). > > The growisofs(1m) manual has examples on how to use it. The handbook has examples of how-to copy audio CD's doing the reads with dd. I posted something yesteerday to see if that part could be done with a script. gary > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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