On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:56:33 -0800, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > Now that I have > > cdr.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM > 642848 -rw-r--r-- 1 kline wheel 657922048 Jan 24 15:34 cdr.iso > > what is the safest command to use to burn to 1. a CD, and 2. a > DVD? Since `file' says that cdr.iso is a filesystem, I'm > assuming that I don't need to grow or newfs anything on the disc.
You're right. It is a pre-mastered file system that just needs to be recorded onto a media. The size 657922048 indicates that it would fit onto a regular CD-R. > cdrdao seems like more toward audio, so i'm guessing that it's > either cdrecord or burncd. I'll share my shell script once it > works on both media. Yes, both will work, and yes, cdrdao is better for audio or mixed forms (allthough it can burn data ISO, too, but I don't know how, out of the box). :-) You may follow my examples from Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:53:46 +0100. I'm a lazy guy, so I've setup the following aliases in /etc/csh.cshrc: alias burndata 'cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -tao -data' alias burnaudio 'cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -dao -audio' alias burntoc 'cdrdao write --driver generic-mmc-raw --device 1,0,0 --speed 16 --eject' And I've got a shell script "burndvd" in ~/bin (included in $PATH): #!/bin/sh if [ "$1" = "" ]; then echo "$0 <iso>" exit 1 fi if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then echo "$0: cannot open $1" exit 1 fi growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=$1 cdcontrol eject I know this is *very* lazy stuff, but it works, and I never change a running system. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"