Problem with burncd

[Lowell Gilbert]

Carmel <Carmel_NY at hotmail.com> writes:

> I just installed FreeBSD-7.2. I attempted to burn a CD; however,
> when the burn completes, I receive this message:
>
> burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE); Input/output error.
>
> This is the command line:
>
> # burncd -ev -s max fixate data notes.txt
>
> Now, if I do not use the 'fixate' command, no error message is
> displayed; however, the CD is not readable. I have no idea what the
> problem is. I have used brand new CD disks that work fine on my Windows
> PCs.
>
> Is there a better CD-Burner program that I could use instead?

First of all, you need to make a filesystem to burn onto the CD.  I find
it very unlikely that you really want to burn a text file directly.  

I suggest you start by reading the documentation on the subject:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/