Subject: Re: cdrom newfs
To: Markus Illenseer <markus@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
From: Brad Midgley <brad@pht.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/30/1995 10:44:51
On Thu, 30 Mar 1995, Markus Illenseer wrote:
> mkisofs 1.3 does the job (carefull on low-endian systems, mkisofs has a bug).
> Use vnconfig to mount the image to a virtual device and the normal mount -t cd9660
> to finally mount the virtual CD.
What is the bug? I've used it under linux (intel) quite a lot (!)
> I don't know how to burn the CD, but I'd guess you would simply copy the image
> to the burner using 'dd if=myimage of=/dev/somescsi bs=64KB'
I would really be interested to know definitively how to use a CDR
to burn a disk under unix.
> > a fsck fore iso-9660 (+rockridge) would also very nice :-)
> A what? You dont want that.
isovfy (comes with mkisofs) does some verification of the image. It
won't try to fix it of course (that's why Markus is questioning your
request).
brad@pht.com