Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:31:48 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Making Data CDs Message-ID: <3E9F71A4.2070109@trini0.org> In-Reply-To: <3E9F3E07.50807@trini0.org> References: <3E9F3E07.50807@trini0.org>
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Ok, I figured out my problem. 1. The orignal data was on an NFS drive and not everything was copied for some reason, to the current directory. 2. Pass the -R switch to mkisofs, so it can handle directory depths more than 6 deep. Now I seem to have a proper CD. Thanks for your replies... Gerard Samuel wrote: > Just getting into CD Burning with FreeBSD. > I have a directory of files with a total size of 540M (according to w2k). > I made an iso of the directory like -> > mkisofs -o files.iso ~/temp/files > > Then I used burncd like -> > burncd -v -s max -f /dev/acd1 data ~/temp/files.iso fixate > > Now, Im able to mount the CD in FreeBSD, and in w2k, and they seem > similar, but the file sizes were way off. > According to w2k, the total file usage was 540M while the CD is only 40M. > Did I use the correct steps to burn this CD?? > > Thanks for any info you may provide.. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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