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Date:      Sun, 27 Aug 2000 02:59:22 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Chris Moline <chris@theboss.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Burning CDs (was: no subject)
Message-ID:  <20000827025922.G64260@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000827105017.B90379@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <3.0.3.32.20000826191001.006c9a50@theboss.net> <20000827105017.B90379@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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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


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