From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 16:22:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C686F1065675 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:22:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FEE8FC13 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:22:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.101]) by mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A0EAFBC02; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:22:49 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:22:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20081205161112.f9bcddff.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20081205161112.f9bcddff.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812051722.47651.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Subject: Re: DVD cloning tool 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, 05 Dec 2008 16:22:50 -0000 On Friday 05 December 2008 16:11:12 Polytropon wrote: > So far I've used growisofs to record pre-mastered ISO > file systems, but I don't want to make it that complicated > (mound source DVD, mkisofs, growisofs / burn this ISO > to destination DVD) if it can be avoided. It's not > neccessary to perform this operation from one drive > to the other, it's okay to have a temporary file > (first read, then burn). =46rom the manpage: To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=3Dimage.iso where image.iso represents an arbitrary object in the filesystem, s= uch as file, named pipe or device entry. Nothing is growing here and c= om- mand name is not intuitive in this context. So, while untested by me: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd1=3D/dev/cd0 should work. =2D-=20 Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.