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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mkisofs --> CD not readable
Date: 1 Feb 1997 00:29:26 GMT
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fm@.aut.tu-harburg.de () wrote:

> mkisofs -N -d -R -T -x /somedir -l -L -o out.iso .
> (WorkinDir was "/somedir")

(Btw., see /usr/share/examples/worm/, too.)

> Afterwards I transferred the iso-File to a Windowas95-machine to
> burn a CD (Yes, I have checked that the transfer was binary).
> Burning the CD as non-single-volume ended up with a spoiled CD,
> which was not mountable on any OS I tried. The answers of the

Are you sure your Win95 program even likes to get a full ISO fs binary
blurb?  (Most of them try to be `smart' and want to assemble the
filesystem theirselves.)  Are you sure what exactly it does when being
told to burn a ``non-single-volume'' CD?

I'm not.  I use FreeBSD to burn the CDs, so i'm sure what goes there
(and what can't be done yet).


See also Mikhail's comments about testing with a `vn' device.  That's
what i normally do before burning a new image.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)