Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:57:06 +0100 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: burncd args Message-ID: <200403120257.06851.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <44brn2de6x.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <4050F072.1050707@slaughters.com> <405112A8.8080401@slaughters.com> <44brn2de6x.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Friday 12 March 2004 02:52, you wrote: > lee slaughter <lee@slaughters.com> writes: > > Danny Pansters wrote: > > >On Friday 12 March 2004 00:04, lee slaughter wrote: > > >>hi..... > > >>i make a tar.gz backup file. > > >>is burncd -f /dev/acd1 data <filename> fixate > > >>the right syntax? is "data" the correct type? i cannot tell > > >>from burncd manpage. > > > > > > What you called <filename> should be the ISO (top of my head, I > > > think the only exception is if you're creating an audio CD with only > > > WAV/AIFF files that go into tracks). So use mkisofs first, then > > > burncd. > > > > hmmm. so you can only burn an ISO image onto a CD. not anything > > else? like UFS or any other format? > > No, you can burn any format you want. > You have to remember what it is to mount it again, though; > most people will assume it's an ISO 9660 if it's on a CD. > > It can be useful to burn a raw tar or dump file to a CD, > for example. I didn't know that, thanks for pointing that out. Though in order to have anything bootable (from a CD rom) you'd have no other choice than iso, or not? (I sometimes made these mini install CDs containing only the 2.88 floppy image but I always thought of it as an ISO with the bootable image being specified. I'm now wondering if I misunderstood this). Cheers, Dan
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