Newbie - CD Burning Question

[Matthew Hunt]

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.

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