From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 18:20:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DBB37B422 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA01822; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:50:17 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:50:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Chris Moline Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Burning CDs (was: no subject) Message-ID: <20000827105017.B90379@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3.0.3.32.20000826191001.006c9a50@theboss.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000826191001.006c9a50@theboss.net>; from chris@theboss.net on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:10:01PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You're more likely to get responses if you put something in the subject line. On Saturday, 26 August 2000 at 19:10:01 -0700, Chris Moline wrote: > I finally figured out how to burn cds (I didn't know you had to do mkisofs > first). Anyway, I decided to try to backup my system. I have a 1.6GB drive > with 900MB of free space. I have 16MB of RAM plus 70MB of swap space. When > I run mkisofs it quits with an out of swap space error . Is there some way > of getting around this?? Yes. Add more swap space. Under the circumstances, you might get by with a swap file, but you really need much more swap than you have. > Would > > mkisofs options - / | burncd -f /dev/acd1c -e data - fixate work? That sounds dangerous to me, especially on a system with so little memory. You really need to store the image on disk first. I don't know if burncd will read from stdin, anyway. The man page doesn't say it does. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message