From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 17:14:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA14886 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 17:14:30 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA14878 ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 17:14:29 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: mtaylor@gateway.cybernet.com (Mark J. Taylor) cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, peter@nmti.com Subject: Re: Help! Pinnacle Micro Recordable CD! In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Apr 95 02:26:55 EDT." Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 17:14:28 -0700 Message-ID: <14877.798423268@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've never hooked the thing up to a FreeBSD box before. I've got about 10 > blanks laying here, but at $15 per blank I'm afraid of wasting $150 to find > out that I used the wrong 'disklabel' option, or the wrong 'newfs' > parameter. I would be very willing to test out the worm code if someone is > in for a small amount of hand holding. :) If you get the hardware end working, I can personally attest to the fact that the mkisofs command in FreeBSD is very finicky about the options it accepts, but once you hit on the right ones it does work and will produce an image that, once burned onto a CD, does the right thing. I may make some changes so that the "asserts" turn into warnings about which non-optional flag you forgot to specify.. :-) The mkisofs stuff was written by Yggdrasil, and very poor quality code it is indeed! It definitely has the hallmarks of something that was written by somebody who had little love for the task and just wanted it to work and work quickly. Jordan