Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:02:24 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Phil R <t3xt@sympatico.ca>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cannot burn a CD with burncd Message-ID: <20011124215725.K32679-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> In-Reply-To: <io1yioudqu.yio@localhost.localdomain>
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On 24 Nov 2001, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> writes: > > > You will need to > > make an ISO image out of the files you want to burn before you can > > actually burn them. > > I must be disagreeable again. Here's my notes on a raw-file backup and > verify which I did last January (using afio instead of tar): Yes, of course that works. *But* most users seem to expect that the CDs they burn can be mounted and read from, i.e., they expect their burned CDs to hehave like "normal" CDs (if that makes sense, but I guess you know what I mean). People tend to think that they can do burncd data myfile.txt fixate and then mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /mnt and then less /mnt/myfile.txt This does, however, not really work. So, while you *can* and while I do put raw tar files (or whatever) onto CDs, most people that have been asking burncd questions on this list were wondering why they cannot simply burn all kinds of files onto a CD using burncd and then mount the CD and read these files. I told these folks that they'd have to create an isofs of their files first, *if* they want to mount and read their files. Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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