Re: Afew words about POSIX and mkisofs

2004-10-25 Thread scdbackup
To Joerg : I cannot see any practical benefit from changing the meaning of option -L. As the author of cdrtools you are entitled to do such a change. It is not a friendly gesture towards your programming users, nevertheless. To Bill : The option -allow-leading-dots is documented in the

Re: Afew words about POSIX and mkisofs

2004-10-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is of course complete nonsense, sorry :-( Does that mean you claim that all the scripts and programs which currently use the -L and -f options would continue to work exactly as they do now? Or that in some way not working as intended isn't

Re: Afew words about POSIX and mkisofs

2004-10-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Joerg : I cannot see any practical benefit from changing the meaning of option -L. The benefit is to convert all utilities to have at least a few options work the same way in case the utilities do the same thing. This is true for -H/-L/-P. I know that this may

:-( allocation length isn't sane

2004-10-25 Thread RonGroen
Dear List, I am using DVD+RW/+R/-R[W] for Linux on my NEC1300 and other for quite some time now. (Super!)On my new MSI DR8P on RedHat 7.3 it reports:# dvd+rw-format /dev/scd0* DVD¦RW/-RAM format utility by [EMAIL PROTECTED], version 4.10.:-( allocation length isn't sane It gives the same

Re: Afew words about POSIX and mkisofs

2004-10-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Bill : The option -allow-leading-dots is documented in the mkisofs -help text. In mkisofs 2.01a34 : -L, -allow-leading-dots OLD Pre-POSIX.1-2001 option - don't use -L In mkisofs 1.12 (of 1998 or so) : -L, -allow-leading-dots Allow iso9660 filenames to

Re: Sony DRU-700A gets errors writing ordinary CD.

2004-10-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:48:35PM +0800, Clare Johnstone wrote: Linux version 2.6.7, Distribution Crux (i.e. no frills). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/clare# cdrecord -v -dao speed=16 fs=16m dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 041001.iso Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling

Re: Afew words about POSIX and mkisofs

2004-10-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -allow-leading-dots is documented only in most recent versions of man mkisofs. It does work with my whole collection of mkisofs versions, though. In the -help but not in the man page (until the absolute latest release). How very Joerg-like... And

Re: hidden file on an iso-image ?

2004-10-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an ISO image of 300 Mb which is said to contain software for Linux and for Windows. When I burn it onto a CD and mount it or when I mount it directly as loop device, I can only see the Linux part ( du -sm shows 144 Mb only). When I look at it

Re: Sony DRU-700A gets errors writing ordinary CD.

2004-10-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
HERE is the cdrecord output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/clare# cdrecord -v -dao speed=16 fs=16m dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 041001.iso ^^^ You are using a Linux

Re: hidden file on an iso-image ?

2004-10-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 25 Oct, Joerg Schilling wrote: Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an ISO image of 300 Mb which is said to contain software for Linux and for Windows. When I burn it onto a CD and mount it or when I mount it directly as loop device, I can only see the Linux part ( du -sm

Re: hidden file on an iso-image ?

2004-10-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are plenty of possibilities to let the size of the image file be the size of the du output. One is a broken du utility or a broken kernel. It's not just the du utility. I have burnt the image to a CD with recent cdrecord and there were no

Re: hidden file on an iso-image ?

2004-10-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 25 Oct, Joerg Schilling wrote: Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are plenty of possibilities to let the size of the image file be the size of the du output. One is a broken du utility or a broken kernel. It's not just the du utility. I have burnt the image to a CD

Re: hidden file on an iso-image ?

2004-10-25 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
It remains the question how can one read all files under Linux? Should be simple: mount -onorock on Linux. The iso image contains both joliet and rock ridge extensions. M$ is unable to read rockridge, Linux will use rockridge in preference, then joliet. If you tell Linux not to use the rock

Re: :-( allocation length isn't sane

2004-10-25 Thread Carsten Neumann
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Re: :-( allocation length isn't sane

2004-10-25 Thread Wayne Topa
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2004-10-25 Thread lus_dacosta
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