I have run into this problem, and mentioned it on this list before, but
it's data-dependent, and the only data source I had that would reliably
reproduce it is copyrighted, so I didn't want to attach it for the
entire list.
If you can reliably reproduce it, I'd suggest entering a formal bug
report; when I reported it before without the ability to demonstrate
it, I've encountered skepticism from Mandrake folks, and nobody who
would claim responsibility and let me mail it to them individually.
Lacking a reproducable test case, though, I didn't enter a formal bug
report.
You also might contact the mkisofs folks; again, if you have a good test
case.
(I have a zip file that when mkisofs'ed by itself will show the
corruption. If an individual would like to see it I can provide it.)
Also, the mkisofs included with "scdbackup" does work reliably. And I
should (but haven't yet) try the mkisofs home page and download the
"official" version from there and test it. I'll try that later tonight.
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| I just got M.D 7.0 going (nice, real nice windows 95 -> 98 level
| improvements without the 3 years!), but mkisofs seems to be creating
| garbled filesystems. I burned some CD's, and Win-Zip (the disks are for
| Win 32 installs, I burn ALL my cd's on linux now!) complained that they
| were not a valid winzip file. My C code text files had garble at the
| top sometimes and sometimes got chopped off before the end?
|
| So, I made a straight ISO image file with mkisofs (using -a and -J flags
| ONLY). Now I mounted the ISO file (don't have command handy, I'm at
| work), and the command cmp sais that the File in to ISO image does NOT
| match the file in the Disk. I can copy to / from all File system types,
| and the cmp command verifies correctness, even from a CR-ROM. However,
| ALL mkisofs attempts (starting from ext2, VFAT, and ISO9660) yielded the
| SAME incorrect differences (at the same position).
|
| By re-installing mkisofs ?? from my M.D 6.0 disk, the problem is Fixed!!
|
| Can anyone RE-CREATE this, or am I the only ONE ???
|
| Sorry for not being able to provide versions of mkisofs, but they are
| the included ones in M.D 7.0 and M.D 6.0 .........
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