From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 13:49:49 2002 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 D9EFC37B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BABC43E4A for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:49:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbeis@wxs.nl) Received: from yokozuna.bsd ([213.10.35.60]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H3H5UX02.N1W for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 22:49:45 +0200 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 22:49:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen Reply-To: Marco Beishuizen To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: burncd error In-Reply-To: <200210042029.g94KT46Y070624@lurza.secnetix.de> Message-ID: Homepage: FreeBSD: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, the wise Oliver Fromme spoke, and said: > Marco Beishuizen wrote: > > That did the trick. I wrote a file to the cd and fixate worked correctly. > > At least I think it did, because when I want to mount the cd to look at > > it, mount gives me an "invalid argument" error. > > > > So my new problem is how to access a cd-rw with data on it. > > What kind of file did you write to the CD? Of course, it > has to be an image of a supported filesystem (usually an > ISO9660 image), otherwise you wouldn't be able to mount it. > You can only mount filesystems. > > To create an ISO9660 filesystem image, use mkisofs (from > the ports collection). Afterwards, use burncd to write > that image to a CD-R or CD-RW. > > You can, of course, write an arbitrary file (a .tar file or > whatever) to a CD, but then you can't mount it. You can > read it back with dd, though. > > Regards > Oliver Yes, I wrote an arbitrary file to the cd. A .pdf file actually. I already thought the mount error had something to do with a missing filesystem or something like that. I want to use the cd-writer to make periodic backups of important files. The easiest thing to do would be to just "copy" the files with burncd, like I did with the .pdf file. But it looks that I have to do a bit more than that to use the cd-writer as a backup medium. I think I have to learn more about mkisofs and creating images etc. :-) Marco -- What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message