Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:46:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: amoss@cs.huji.ac.il (Amos Shapira) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating iso9660 filesystems Message-ID: <199506232046.NAA11672@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199506231846.AA06507@picton.cs.huji.ac.il> from "Amos Shapira" at Jun 23, 95 09:46:17 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>
> Andrew Herdman <apollo@io.org> wrote:
> |Hello;
> |
> |I have a WORM drive, that i would like to create iso9660 filesystems on
> |instead of the normal unix ufs filesystem so I can share the disk between
> |DOS/UNIX/MAC (all of which I have) The WORM drive works flawlessly with
> |FreeBSD 2.0 (i will be upgrading to 2.0.5 when my cd shows up). Is there
> |a device driver to do this? Any ideas or suggestions would be very helpful.
> |
> |Thanks
> |Andrew
> |
>
> Linux has a "mkisofs" program which will dump a filesystem in iso9660
> format onto a file (the docs say you can dump that into a partition
> and mount the partition in order to check the format, sounds neat :).
>
> I just saw a report that mkisofs was ported to SGI IRIX so I'd expect
> a port to FreeBSD should be easy (if it hasn't been done yet).
>
> There is also a program to write "mkisofs" output to CD-ROM's. Don't
> remember its name.
>
> For more pointers about Linux software you should probably look at the
> Linux Software Map (LSM for short).
On a 2.0.5A or later system try ``man mkisofs'' and ``which isofs'':
gndrsh# man mkisofs
MKISOFS(8) MKISOFS(8)
NAME
mkisofs - create a iso9660 filesystem with optional Rock
Ridge attributes.
...
gndrsh# which mkisofs
/usr/bin/mkisofs
These are now standard parts of FreeBSD.
--
Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199506232046.NAA11672>