Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 07:46:55 -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: <20020129124655.87E264048@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <15446.32390.46324.479607@guru.mired.org> References: <15446.32390.46324.479607@guru.mired.org>
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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.)
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