Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:37:17 +1100 (EST) From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: sos@freebsd.org Subject: bin/35524: [patch] update man-page of burncd(8) to tell about the use of mkisofs before burning a cd. Message-ID: <20020304023717.55130302@k7.mavetju.org>
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>Number: 35524
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: [patch] update man-page of burncd(8) to tell about the use of mkisofs before burning a cd.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 03 18:40:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Edwin Groothuis
>Release: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD k7.mavetju.org 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #1: Thu Feb 28 14:56:20 EST 2002 edwin@k7.mavetju.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/k7 i386
>Description:
More and more questions in the freebsd-questions mailinglist are
about people having problems to mount a self-created cd-rom. This
is because they don't know about the fact that burncd(8) is used
to burn cd images and not plain files.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
This patch of the man-page of burncd(8) add these lines:
NOTES
If you are creating a CD which has to be mountable, please note that you
first have to make a CD image with mkisofs(8). Mkisofs(8) is available
from the FreeBSD ports-collection. Please see the section in the man-
page of mkisofs(8) on how to create these.
--- burncd.8.old Mon Mar 4 13:23:09 2002
+++ burncd.8 Mon Mar 4 13:36:15 2002
@@ -145,6 +145,12 @@
.Bd -literal
# gunzip -c file.iso.gz | burncd -f /dev/acd0c data - fixate
.Ed
+.Sh NOTES
+If you are creating a CD which has to be mountable, please note that you
+first have to make a CD image with mkisofs(8). Mkisofs(8) is available
+from the FreeBSD ports-collection. Please see the
+.B EXAMPLES
+section in the man-page of mkisofs(8) on how to create these.
.Sh BUGS
Probably, please report when found.
.Sh HISTORY
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