Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

[John Richard Smith]

Douglas Bainbridge wrote:

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 00:09, John Richard Smith wrote: 
 

Douglas Bainbridge wrote:

   


Data. Sizewise: recently, only small amounts up to and around 1MB, just
in order to test whether I could get the thing to work at all.
DougB

 

OK so you are writing data files, and there is no issue of fitting size 
on the discs.

You created the iso files with mkisofs first ?

like this,

cd to destination directory (eg <home>/tmp)

tmp]$ mkisofs -r -J -v -o tmp.iso /<path to source files, eg /mnt/cdrom 
, or whatever>

then write to disc

tmp]$ cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -eject -ignsize /tmp.iso 
(where dev=0,0,0  is whatever it should be on your system, ie cdrecord 
-scanbus, and speed is whatever is appropiate for your device)

no need to create iso files first if you are downloading iso files, but 
if you are merely writing some data files wise to disc for your own 
convenience then you must create your own iso files first, and to that 
end it helps when on the CL to assemble  all the data files in one 
single directory to start with.

Maybe I am overstating the obvious here, appologise if I am.

John

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