Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 07:55:17 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs for learning about CD burning? Message-ID: <20020129125517.A7C9D4048@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020129124655.87E264048@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <15446.32390.46324.479607@guru.mired.org> <20020129124655.87E264048@i8k.babbleon.org>
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On Tuesday 29 January 2002 07:46 am, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> types: > > > 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? > > burncd doesn's take input from stdin. In theory you should be able to use > a pipe, but in practice when I've tried this it makes coasters. (That is, > the disks don't work right.) AUGGHH! This made no sense. Let's try it again: Burncd doesn't takeinput from stdin. In theory you should be able to use a NAMED pipe, but in practice when I've this it makes coasters. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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