Newbie - CD Burning Question
I have a cd writer on my FreeBSD 4.4 Machine. I'm new to FreeBSD and have tried using the burncd command that is in the documentation. However, I do not think the CD Burner is located on /dec/acd0c because it says no such file or directory is located. The command I am using is # burncd -f /dec/acd0c data /home/www/directory fixate What I want to do is copy a whole directory and burn it to my cd-rom Can someone just give me a nudge to show me what I may be doing wrong, command or location wise. Thanks in advance -Original Message- From: Vincent Poy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:10 PM To: Mark Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joshua Oreman Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD cd /mnt/root /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf- cd /mnt/var /sbin/dump -L -f- /var|restore -rf- cd /mnt/usr /sbin/dump -L -f- /usr|restore -rf- I have heard this before, but I never understand this part. :) How does creating a /mnt/root directory, and restoring in that directory get my / slice back? Then the restored data will just sit in /mnt/root! What good does it there? Or should I create /mnt/root as partition, about equal in size to the root To mirror the root partition to another: # mkdir /mnt/root # mount /dev/ROOT-MIRROR-DEV /mnt/root # cd /mnt/root # /sbin/dump -f- / | restore -rf- You will not *need* to umount the root partition. Ok; what you have done is made a dump on the root mirror device; great! But how do I now tell FreeBSD to use that restored partition as /? Edit /etc/fstab to effect the change for the next boot? I have a nagging suspicion it will then still boot off the old / slice. - Mark Editing /mnt/root/etc/fstab and updating it with the new entries. Perhaps you can make a script so that after the dump/restore.. it'll copy /etc/fstab.new to /mnt/root/etc/fstab - the fstab.new file is basically the device names of the new device. The next boot thing is easy. If you've ever had more than one HD on the machine with OSes on both the first and second HD's and used FreeBSD's Boot Manager... The first thing FreeBSD will show is the BootManager which goes something like this: F1 FreeBSD F5 FreeBSD If you don't do anything, it will always boot with F1 which is the first drive. F5 is the second drive, I don't remember the exact name as it varies. So if you hit F5, it will use the /etc/fstab on the second drive as it will use that drive to boot up. Cheers, Vince - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Vice President __ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 02:20 pm, Tony Pagliocco wrote: I have a cd writer on my FreeBSD 4.4 Machine. I'm new to FreeBSD and have tried using the burncd command that is in the documentation. However, I do not think the CD Burner is located on /dec/acd0c because it says no such file or directory is located. The command I am using is # burncd -f /dec/acd0c data /home/www/directory fixate What I want to do is copy a whole directory and burn it to my cd-rom Can someone just give me a nudge to show me what I may be doing wrong, command or location wise. I think they you really want to us mkisofs to create the image that you burn onto the CD-R. You don't see an fs on the CD that you can browse otherwise. Kent Thanks in advance -Original Message- From: Vincent Poy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:10 PM To: Mark Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joshua Oreman Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD cd /mnt/root /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf- cd /mnt/var /sbin/dump -L -f- /var|restore -rf- cd /mnt/usr /sbin/dump -L -f- /usr|restore -rf- I have heard this before, but I never understand this part. :) How does creating a /mnt/root directory, and restoring in that directory get my / slice back? Then the restored data will just sit in /mnt/root! What good does it there? Or should I create /mnt/root as partition, about equal in size to the root To mirror the root partition to another: # mkdir /mnt/root # mount /dev/ROOT-MIRROR-DEV /mnt/root # cd /mnt/root # /sbin/dump -f- / | restore -rf- You will not *need* to umount the root partition. Ok; what you have done is made a dump on the root mirror device; great! But how do I now tell FreeBSD to use that restored partition as /? Edit /etc/fstab to effect the change for the next boot? I have a nagging suspicion it will then still boot off the old / slice. - Mark Editing /mnt/root/etc/fstab and updating it with the new entries. Perhaps you can make a script so that after the dump/restore.. it'll copy /etc/fstab.new to /mnt/root/etc/fstab - the fstab.new file is basically the device names of the new device. The next boot thing is easy. If you've ever had more than one HD on the machine with OSes on both the first and second HD's and used FreeBSD's Boot Manager... The first thing FreeBSD will show is the BootManager which goes something like this: F1 FreeBSD F5 FreeBSD If you don't do anything, it will always boot with F1 which is the first drive. F5 is the second drive, I don't remember the exact name as it varies. So if you hit F5, it will use the /etc/fstab on the second drive as it will use that drive to boot up. Cheers, Vince - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Vice President __ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:20:51PM -0700, Tony Pagliocco wrote: The command I am using is # burncd -f /dec/acd0c data /home/www/directory fixate Should be dev, not dec. Is this just a typo in your email, or were you really typing dec? If you were, maybe that explains the error. What I want to do is copy a whole directory and burn it to my cd-rom You can't do that directly. You need to make an image of the CD-ROM before you burn it; you can use mkisofs from the Ports Collection to do this. Basically, you can say: # mkisofs -o image.iso /home/www/directory # burncd -f /dev/acd0c data image.iso fixate Note that image.iso will be approximately as large as the sum of all the files are going onto the CD. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:20 pm, Tony Pagliocco wrote: CD Burner is located on /dec/acd0c because it says no such file or directory is located. The command I am using is # burncd -f /dec/acd0c data /home/www/directory fixate Are you typing /dev or /dec? It should be /dev. Also, according to 'man burncd', the files burned to data CD-Rs are assumed to be ISO9660 file systems, so I think you need to take whatever file(s) you want to put on the cd, and use mkisofs to create a ISO image. I've never used burncd though, so I can't be sure on that. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question
Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # mkisofs -o image.iso /home/www/directory # burncd -f /dev/acd0c data image.iso fixate or # mkisofs /home/www/directory | burncd -f /dev/acd0c data - fixate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
