Re: help me burn a cd under Freebsd

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.comREMOVE)
Date: 11/29/03 

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:45:01 GMT

In article <zV0yb.121470$hV.4383526@news2.tin.it>,
SiMoStro <simostro@hotmail.com> wrote:
>hannibal wrote:
>
>> Hi

>> I tried burning a cd some minutes ago, but I failed, I forgot to make
>> an iso out of the stuff I wanted to burn.

>> I installed mkisofs from the ports and I don't know how to exactlty
>> use it.
>>
>> I have one directory in a fat32 partition that is mounted on BSD. The
>> directory (Gaud) contains two 700 Mb .mpg files (Gaudeamus1.mpg and
>> Gaudeamus2.mpg, this is the link to them: d/Gaud)

>> How do I make an iso with the first movie only? i don't want to make
>> an iso of all the directory as it won't fit on a cd. Will the ISO be
>> 700 MB?

>mkisofs -o image1.iso -J -R /somewhere/whatever.mpg

>> Is there another way to burn this .mpg on the cd from BSD without
>> making an ISO out of it, (thus adding another 700 Mb on the hdd)? On
>> Windows (using Nero) I simply dragged the file and press Burn.

>You can use XCDRoast but you have to enable IDE-->SCSI in your
>kernel if your burner-drive isn't SCSI.
>You've better find an HOW-TO somewhere but I suggest to you to
>improve your knowledge on mkisofs and burncd first.

I see nothing that resembles IDE-->SCSI anywhere in the kernel
files - such as LINT.

I've done the IDE-SCSI think Linux to enable the VXA drives to run
but I don't see where I can do this in FreeBSD.

Any pointers to this.

Bill 

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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