From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 20 21:36:23 2003 Return-Path: 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 7146A37B401 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:36:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from worldaccessfortheblind.org (dhcp26133104.columbus.rr.com [24.26.133.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7025043FDD for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:36:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from positron@derik.org) Received: from Pluto.mshome.net ([192.168.0.136]) by worldaccessfortheblind.org ( IA Mail Server Version: 3.2.4. Build: 1100 ) ) ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 00:36:01 -0400 From: derik DeVecchio To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 00:35:48 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.9/32.560 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: how can I burn ISO images in FreeBSD 4.8, cd-write port broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 04:36:23 -0000 I am sort of a newbie with FreeBSD and I know it must be POSSIBLE to burn CD's in FreeBSD (otherwise why have ports for all that CD software). For the record I would prefer to use a GUI in gnome but am PERFECTLY willing to use a console app if that is all FreeBSD has to offers me or if that kind of application is better for this kind of task. I have examined a number of applications but none of them seem to work for one reason or another. CDBakeOven only seems to work with KDE (not installed on my system) Xcdroast says it only works with SCSI (my drive is IDE) TCDR requires a bunch of stuff I have never even heard of (dailog????) I am sure that at least ONE of those things won't work on FreeBSD with out some tweaking. CD-Write seems to be the only remaining choice for me. But the FreeBSD port of cd-write doesn't work on my system. Before people ask, let me explain that last one a bit. When CD-Write loads for the first time it asks for the location of mkisofs. I kindly point it to the place where the FreeBSD port put it, namely /usr/local/bin/mkisofs. There is no manual page or help files for CD-WRite so from here on out it is strictly guesswork. I am _guessing_ that after you point out mkisofs, you could go straight to the "Master CD" "track at once" or "Disk at once" options. But if you do, you get a dialog box that has only one active button: Cancel. There is a directory tree you can play with; but I can only look at the files and I can NOT select them or anything. There is a check box called "dummy write" but checking it doesn't change the behavior of anything else. Going back to the main menu, you have two more choice (besides quit). The first is "copy CD". This dialog has the same problem as the aforementioned one, but now the only working buttons are "browse" (which lets you pick a directory) and "Dismiss" which takes you back to the main menu. I am fairly confident that it is not my CD-ROM drive. I can mount my CD-ROM with mount_cd9660, and I can read files with it within FreeBSD. When this system had Mandrake Linux 9.1, I could use eeroast (a Mandrake utility I think) and burn ISO's that I later used successfully So what do you FreeBSD people out there use to burn your CD's!? What program will allow me to burn a CD from an ISO image? Or perhaps just burn some files out of a directory? At this point, I can't do either with FreeBSD. derik email: derik@pobox.com WWW: http://www.pobox.com/~derik