Sean Johnson and some other referred to: > But of course you can ... from the cdrecord manpage: > > " If the overall speed of the system is sufficient and the > structure of the filesystem is not too complex, cdrecord > will run without creating an image of the ISO 9660 > filesystem. Simply run the pipeline: > > mkisofs -R /master/tree | cdrecord -v fs=6m speed=2 > dev=2,0 - "
Good point. I forgot about that option. Just a question. What does mkisofs do? As I understood it mkisofs creates a iso9660 image? >From the manpage: "mkisofs is effectively a pre-mastering program to generate the iso9660 filesystem - it takes a snapshot of a given directory tree, and generates a binary image which will ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ correspond to an iso9660 filesystem when written to a block device." So what mkisofs -R /master/tree | cdrecord -v fs=6m speed=2 dev=2,0 does is piping an image to cdrecord. That is what I meant by saying you can not write a CD without an image. Or am I still wrong on this one? Johann -- J.H. Spies, Hugenotestraat 29, Posbus 80, Franschhoek, 7690, South Africa Tel/Faks 021-876-2337 Sel/Cell 082-255-2388 "Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited." Romans 12:16