From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 15 10:55:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206971065670 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:55:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963518FC0C for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:55:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o1FAtWmi072145; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:55:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o1FAtVwA072144; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:55:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:55:31 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <201002151055.o1FAtVwA072144@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk, staffslug@staffslug.org.uk, sc@mailman.lug.org.uk In-Reply-To: <201002142032.55807.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:55:47 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: ISO Image dd To DVD+RW X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk, staffslug@staffslug.org.uk, sc@mailman.lug.org.uk List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:55:50 -0000 Frank Mitchell <> wrote: > Latest issue of Linux Format Mag gives you a DVD ISO Image for FreeBSD v8.0, > which I happen to be interested in. I was also looking for an interesting use > for my DVD+RW disks. I read somewhere you could "dd" straight from an ISO > Image file to DVD+RW, though I couldn't remember where. Don't know about Linux, but on FreeBSD you can use the growisofs tool from the "dvd+rw" tools collection (ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools). The syntax is simple: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=dvdimage.iso (/dev/cd0 is my dvd drive.) I think you can also use the burncd tool that is part of FreeBSD's base system, but I haven't tried to do that. growisofs works perfectly fine for me (it also handles double-layer media (8.5 GB) correctly, BTW). You cannot use dd for that purpose because dd doesn't have special knowledge about the recording process, e.g. it doesn't know how to determine the laser power, it doesn't know how to enable burn-proof, it doesn't know how to fixate a CD or DVD, i.e. the session won't be closed properly, and so on. That's why a special-purpose tool is better suited to handle recording of CD and DVD media. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony number 9." -- Erwin Dieterich