From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 22 14:49:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A33137B713 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:49:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.14]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:53:27 -0700 Message-ID: <39021E48.3C4835BC@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:48:56 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trevor Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to burn References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Trevor Johnson wrote: > > > I'm just getting interested in using my HP-8100i (atapi) to burn CD-R > > and CD-RW. Do you use mkisofs or do you burn directly to the cd. I > > will have to use burncd but I'm wondering what options you use. > > For many people, including me, burncd does not work. See some of the > messages from the -current list: I've been following all of the burning cd threads on -questions and -stable and it never occurred to me to look at -current. It was a wakeup in two respects because I had never noticed anything but -questions on geocrawler and I have my own archive of the last month or so. There were certainly a lot of discussion of what didn't work and never saw anything about what did work. I spent a couple of hours on geocrawler last night and found one message from "Randall Hopper" that was almost a cookbook for burning your own FreeBSD cd but it was from Feb 1998. A lot has changed since then. Eventually, I did a "man mkisofs | col -b > mkisofs.txt" and another for burncd. Then, I lpr'ed them and spent some time reading each. Before I ever do my first mkisofs I will have a .mkisofsrc created. There are simply too many meaningless options to mis-type until you find the magic combo. That was quite a list of messages to look at. It could keep me occupied (out of trouble) for awhile after I get back from eating dinner. I can always do a mkisofs and then transfer the image to the Windows 2000 side of the machine to burn it. I just have to reboot it, which I'm trying not to do. I also want the CD's readable on W2K/NT/Win9x, which doesn't permit many choices for creating the iso. I have some mapping programs and data that I have collected (1GB +) and want to ship to someone involved with a similar project in Germany. He is using Win 98. My dat tape is a much easier solution on my end. Thanks (I think :) ), Kent > > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/147/2000/1/0/3078141/ > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/147/2000/4/0/3571124/ -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message