Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:42:27 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Burning DVD-R's Message-ID: <8385797A-3A3F-11D8-9B18-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200312291957.MAA24137@lariat.org> References: <200312291957.MAA24137@lariat.org>
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On Dec 29, 2003, at 2:57 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > Due to inevitable code and data bloat, I need to begin burning DVD-R's > instead > of CD-R's. However, the man page for FreeBSD's burncd(8) utility > doesn't > mention whether (or how) FreeBSD is capable of doing this on the > Memorex ATAPI > drive I have at hand. Can anyone tell me (a) whether FreeBSD can burn > DVD-R's; > (b) whether it wil work with this drive; and (c) what commands are > required to > do the burning? All info much appreciated. Yes, FreeBSD can burn DVD-R's. Please see /usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools. This port should work fine with an ATAPI burner such as your unit, but you may need to rebuild the kernel with: device atapicam The command used is called "growisofs" and invokes "mkisofs" as needed as a dependency. The manpage includes the following examples: " To master and burn an ISO9660 volume with Joliet and Rock-Ridge exten- sions on a DVD: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files To append more data to same DVD: growisofs -M /dev/dvd -R -J /more/files Make sure to use the same options for both inital burning and following sessions. To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso where image.iso represents an arbitrary object in the filesystem, such as file, named pipe or device entry. Nothing is growing here and com- mand name is not intuitive in this context." -- -Chuck
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