Thanks a lot!! On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Johan Hartzenberg <jhartzen at gmail.com> wrote:
> First allow me to explain something. When you cd into the mount point > where the CD or DVD is mounted, you will not be able to make changes there. > This is because commands like mkdir, cp, rm mv, etc uses the file system as > an interface for making changes to the underlying disk, and the file system > is mounted as read-only > > In contrast with this, the GUIs uses CD-writing APIs for making changes to > the disk. In particular when you drag-and-drop to create files there, you > will find that the files are in fact written somewhere else in a temporary > location. Later once you have all the changes you want to make "ready", you > tell the CD-writing application to compile a CD, combining what is on the > disk now with what you want to change, and then writing those changes, > together with a new Table-of-contents, to the media. > > The important thing here is to realize that metacity or whatever tool you > use, do not directly write to the disk. > > You can do this from the command line, but it is not a one-step process. > You will stell need to "prepare" a temporary space with the files, make an > image file (ISO file) and then write (or merge) this to the CD or DVD > media. The GUI tools automate the process of programming the options on > cdrecord / cdrw / growisofs / mkisofs / etc. > > In any case, as far as doing this on the command line: > > cdrecord: 131 options (including sub-options) documented in man page. > > cdrw: 18 options documented. > > And you realy only need to use one: > > cdrw -i image.iso > > However, creating the iso image can be non-trivial. In particular if you > want to deal with long file names and cater for your resulting disk being > usable on various OSes, and have strange characters in the file names.... > > Though if you want to just dump a few files: > mkisofs -o image.iso /path/to_files > > Followed by: cdrw -i image.iso > > _Johan > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Joerg Schilling < > Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > >> Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote: >> >> > - burn that image with cdrw (Solaris specific, but very easy to use) >> or >> > cdrecord (common on many unix platforms, but has a stunningly >> > complicated set of commandline options, most of which you can >> > probably ignore) >> >> Well my experineces say that cdrw is the command with a complex interface >> while >> cdrecord is easy to use ;-) >> >> If you did not yet use cdrecord, you should try it and see that it would >> be >> hard to make cdrecord easier to use than it is now. The advantage of >> cdrecord >> is that it supports more features and that it writes human readable error >> messages while cdrw does not say more than just "it did not work". >> >> >> >> J?rg >> >> -- >> EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de<EMail%3Ajoerg at >> schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>(home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin >> js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) >> schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: >> http://schily.blogspot.com/ >> URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ >> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > > > -- > Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. > Arthur C. Clarke > > Afrikaanse Stap Website: http://www.bloukous.co.za > > My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com > > ICQ = 193944626 > YahooIM = johan_hartzenberg > GoogleTalk = jhartzen at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20080626/89f5fcd9/attachment.html>
