Re: cdrecord freezes computer

2001-11-11 Thread David Lerner
Karol, You are using software that is working well for others. This seems like a hardware problem. Check the cable and the terminations. Dave Karol Pietrzak wrote: > Hello. > As some of you may remember, I posted this problem a while back. > > I've been burning CD's in Linux ever since 2.2.1

Re: help regarding bootable cd writing

2001-08-14 Thread David Lerner
"sumeer.k" wrote: > > hi > > I am trying to create e a customised > boot cd for my linux machine. > I have created a boot/root floppy > which is working fine. > > I have written the cd with the image > of this floppy with -b -c options of > mkisofs and then a cdrecord > > But when trying ti b

Re: Some more strange information regarding CRW4416S...

2001-07-08 Thread David Lerner
The media that you use may have a speed restriction that the writer will honor. Try media that is marked as supporting the speed that you are trying for. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So, I'm trying to find out why speed=16 doesn't work for my > CRW4416S. and duh... the CRW4416S *IS* only a

El Torrito specification (Follow up to: BOOT IMAGE ?)

2001-05-30 Thread David Lerner
The following link appears to be an authoritative specfication for El Torrito bootable CDs. http://www.phoenix.com/PlatSS/PDFs/specs-cdrom.pdf The bootable image may emulate a floppy disk, a hard drive, or it may boot in a non-emulation mode. In the latter case, the boot image may simply be exec

Re: Boot image ?

2001-05-30 Thread David Lerner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen) > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] told us: > > >> Most OS seem to use no-emulation boot these days. > >> > >> > >> In this case it does not work to look for a floppy image. > > > So where is this new standard to be found? The ElTorito

Re: Boot image ?

2001-05-29 Thread David Lerner
egor duda wrote: > > Hi! > > Monday, 28 May, 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > das> I have an existing bootable CD and I need to change a couple of files. But > das> I can't find an image of the bootable diskette, that seems to be used for > das> El Toritto boot. > > das> Is

Re: making an iso of a solaris 2.6 cd

2001-05-19 Thread David Lerner
Greg Coit wrote: > > Hello, > > I hops this is the correct list to use - please tell me if not. > > I'm trying to make an iso of our solaris 2.6 cd (Sun is discontinuing support for >2.6 and we wan;t to make sure we have a backup). However, I'm having a heck of a >time figuring out the corre

Re: mkisofs interface

2000-11-14 Thread David Lerner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 14 14:15:45 2000 > > >On 14-Nov-00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> mkisofs -o /tmp/xxx dir/ > >> mkisofs -o /tmp/xxx file > >> mkisofs -o /tmp/xxx dir1/ dir2/ file > What should happen with > > mkisofs -o /tmp/xxx dir/ > > mkisofs

Re: mkisofs interface

2000-11-13 Thread David Lerner
Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Hi all, > > it seems that does not behave as expected when called: > > mkisofs -R -o xxx * > > What behviour would you expect for this command line? > > NOTE: I want to know what should happen to directories > and non-directories on the command line. > What should b

Re: Backup Copy of Solaris 8 Dist

2000-09-06 Thread David Lerner
Bill, If you ever copy a Solaris boot disk with dd and cdrecord you will find yourself with an unbootable reproduction. This is a known problem and is addressed by Jorg in the README.copy file. The readcd program will create an image file from the boot disk that can be used as input to cdrecord.

Re: Backup Copy of Solaris 8 Dist

2000-09-02 Thread David Lerner
Robert Woten wrote: > > Dear List, > > My associate and I have managed to create no less than a dozen new > coasters for our cafeteria trying to make a backup copy of the Solaris 8 > Installation (Boot) CDROMs. > > Clearly, it should not be so keenly difficult to make a simple CD copy. > The

Re: CD-RW multisession help

2000-08-19 Thread David Lerner
Korey O'Dell wrote: > > I bought a HP 9110i CD-RW and successfully installed in > RedHat 6.2. I am successfully able to write and erase the > data in a re-writeable CD. But I am unable to successfully use > the multi session option. Any help on this will be highly > appreciated. > > The com

Re: Multi-session problem w/HP 9210

2000-06-21 Thread David Lerner
Alex Shnitman wrote: > > Hi, David! > > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:43:29PM -0400, you wrote the following: > > > I followed Schilling's advice and successfully made a 2-session data > > CD on a HP 9100 using cdrecord-1.9a02. This drive exhibits the same > > behavior that you reported for the HP

Re: Multi-session problem w/HP 9210

2000-06-18 Thread David Lerner
Alex Shnitman wrote: > > Hi, Joerg! > > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 01:12:47AM +0200, you wrote the following: > > > >>(Please note that I'm using a 80-minute disc here, but it happens with > > >>standard 74-minute discs too. The parameters to cdrecord were: > > >>dev=6,0 speed=8 -v -multi. I tried