Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:08:15 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: docs for learning about CD burning? Message-ID: <20020128210815.O662@welearn.com.au>
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I've had nothing but success with my new CD writer, but I haven't done much either. I'm looking for a comprehensive introductory document or article along the lines of "So, you've got this new CD writing gadget, what can you do with it?". Is there such a doc? I could also use Some very lightly technical info on different types of CDs and jargon like "CD-R", "CD-RW", "joliet" and "rock ridge". So I guess I'm looking for two docs, unless they're combined somewhere. Here's where I'm at so far. FreeBSD set.welearn.com.au 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #1: Wed Dec 26 09:32:11 EST 2001 root@set.welearn.com.au:/local/src/sys/compile/SET i386 acd0: CD-RW <SAMSUNG CD-R/RW DRIVE SW-224B> at ata1-master using PIO4 acd1: CDROM <ATAPI CDROM> at ata1-slave using PIO4 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Jan 20 01:57 cdrom -> acd1c lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Jan 20 01:57 cdwriter -> acd0c I've read the burncd man page, then found Dan O'Connor's tutorial at http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ and from that made some sense of what the man pages tried to tell me. From there I was able to do these with apparent success: 1. Make an ISO of a filesystem, then burn it to a blank CD. 2. Mount a FreeBSD CD, make an ISO of its filesystem, then burn that. There's got to be a more direct way of doing task 2, and the list archives mention dd but everyone seems to be arguing about exactly how to do it. So far I see that you can make an image of a data (or audio??) CD with a command like dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048 but I don't know whether I can just change it to of=/dev/cdwriter to do the whole job in one action, or use a pipe to a burncd command, or does it only work via an ISO image on the hard disk? And I haven't even started playing with audio CDs yet... :-) I don't mind looking stuff up myself, but I'm at a dead end. If anyone has some pointers to docs to get me over the learning hump, or even some keywords to search on, it might help others too. But since I seem to be the last kid on the block trying this, surely more introductory material exists and I just haven't found it yet? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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