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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CD writer software? Date: 1 Feb 1997 23:12:06 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 47 Message-ID: <5d0ik6$2u5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <E4vGKJ.LKp@fsa.bris.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E In-Reply-To: <E4vGKJ.LKp@fsa.bris.ac.uk> To: phtlb@zeus.bris.ac.uk (Tim) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34866 phtlb@zeus.bris.ac.uk (Tim) wrote: > What I'd like to know is if there is any software available for writing > to CD. There is, in FreeBSD 2.2. See worm(4), wormcontrol(8), and /usr/share/examples/worm/. > Is there any software that can write the different formats > available (like audio) Audio writing is supported, while audio reading requires a decent drive and external software. It's unfortunately not standardized by the SCSI-2 specs. ``Disc at once'' audio writing is something nobody has been done yet. > and could I make a BSD bootable disk. You gotta write the bootstrap for this. This requires to go into the details of the `El Torito' bootable CD-ROM specs. Be warned that they contain much crap that is required to convince some 15-year old program loader of being booted off a CD-ROM. Watch out for what they call ``Non-emulation booting''. Stay away from their cook-recipe on how to convert an existing bootstrap into a bootable CD. This is something i would classify as humbug, and technically inferior enough to vote against having it in the FreeBSD tree.q OTOH, starting with FreeBSD 2.2, you'll be able to use a filesystem CD-ROM as a fixit medium from inside sysinstall. So all you gotta do is booting your installation floppy, and select `F)ixit'. This avoids the need of a bootable CD. > e-mailed replies would be much appreciated. (Posted and mailed, though you should note that i would have answered it a couple of days before if you hadn't stated this request. Right now, i've batched this answer along with other outgoing mails, in order to avoid paying extra for just your mail.) -- 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. ;-)