Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:50:48 -0500 From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Joshua Delong Thomas <jdt2101@ksu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows IDE burner software vs. burning in freebsd Message-ID: <01012823504800.41558@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0101281823210.11236-100000@unix1.cc.ksu.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0101281823210.11236-100000@unix1.cc.ksu.edu>
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There's always burncd and mkisofs. The combination is very powerful. With it you will have a lot more options than the windows solution. It will also likely be much more stable and reliable. That is the choice we all make in choosing FreeBSD. It takes a little longer getting things configured on the front end to achieve greater reliability and stability in use. You are of course free to choose either way. I like the fact that I really can do other things while burning a cd in FreeBSD because of it's stability. I can even burn a CD and rip and encode another at the same time as reading mail etc. You'll never be able to do that on Windows. You may also want to look into the gtoast port. it's at: /usr/ports/sysutils/gtoaster It is a front end for the burning software that make it as easy to use as ez-cd etc, once you get it configured properly. I got it running on KDE2, but haven't really used it much. I think it could run in any X window manager as long as you have the gtk libraries built (which the gtoast port should do automatically). It is beta software, so using it will add some instability to the FreeBSD utilities burncd and mkisofs that it can use. It can also use other utilities like cdrecord for SCSI cd-r drives. Using tools like mkisofs and burncd from the command line also has big advantages in that you can script the burning. For example tar and gzip all the files you need to backup every night at 3 am (or weekly) and burn it to a cd automatically. just my thoughts Tim On Sunday January 28, 2001 19:28, Joshua Delong Thomas wrote: > I've got an at home LAN, and I've got a choice whether I should put a > cd burner on a windows machine with nero/ez-cd creator or should put > it on the freebsd machine. I haven't even delved into ide burning in > freebsd, and I'm wondering if I even should, especially since windows > burning software is pretty damned easy to use. Any specific freebsd > ide-oriented burning software people recommend? > > -Josh > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 admin@ShellEH.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently upgraded to FreBSD 3.5 - stable and recompiled kernel > > twice. this is what i got after the second time I recompiled > > kernel. > > > > [root@FreeBSD]/usr/bin# passwd > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Undefined symbol "com_err_hook" > > referenced from COPY relocation in passwd > > > > How do I fix that problem? thanks, > > > > Peter, > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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