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Date:      Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:50:17 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Chris Moline <chris@theboss.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Burning CDs (was: no subject)
Message-ID:  <20000827105017.B90379@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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
References:  <3.0.3.32.20000826191001.006c9a50@theboss.net>

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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
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