burncd issues

[Eric F Crist]

On Saturday 27 December 2003 01:30 am, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 01:23:04 -0600
>
> Eric F Crist <ecrist at adtechintegrated.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > This is the first time I've tried burning CDs or DVDs from freebsd.  I
> > have read through what I thought was the pertinent information on the
> > archives and typed the following command to burn a simple pdf file (an
> > old email from the KDE print system, which is readable from the hard
> > drive) to the CDRW drive on my laptop:
> >
> > # burncd -f /dev/acd0c -s max data /home/user/email-test.pdf fixate
>
> Perhaps you missed the isofs step ? From that command line it seems you
> burned directly the file itself, co is no wonder that mount can
> recognise the file-system format.
>
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html
>
> > The cdrw drive works for a few seconds, I get some output from burncd
> > that indicates everything is OK and I eject the CDR, noting the burned
> > tracks that are visible with the right reflection of light.
> >
> > However, I get the following error when I try to execute the following
> > two commands:
> >
> > # mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom
> > or
> > # mount /cdrom
> >
> > Output: cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument
> >
> > Is there a different option I should give burncd or mount?  Please let me
> > know.  Also, from 4.9, are there any other major issues I should know
> > about burning a DVD?  5.x?

That worked!  Thank you so very much for pointing that out for me.

Eric Crist
AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc