From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 20:14: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6A437B42C for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13SrjG-000OjE-00; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 02:59:22 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA03806; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 02:59:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 02:59:22 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Greg Lehey Cc: Chris Moline , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Burning CDs (was: no subject) Message-ID: <20000827025922.G64260@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3.0.3.32.20000826191001.006c9a50@theboss.net> <20000827105017.B90379@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000827105017.B90379@wantadilla.lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: >> mkisofs options - / | burncd -f /dev/acd1c -e data - fixate work? > > That sounds dangerous to me, especially on a system with so little > memory. You really need to store the image on disk first. I don't > know if burncd will read from stdin, anyway. The man page doesn't say > it does. It reads from /dev/stdin just fine, I don't think it supports the "-" hack though. I think I've used mkisofs in a pipeline like this, though I couldn't be sure, or whether it worked. It's probably safer not to bother. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message