Re: cdrecord newbie mystified at step zero
- From: Matt Giwer <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:16:49 -0400
Charles Packer wrote:
On Aug 13, 2:31 am, Matt Giwer <jul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:You don't mount blank media. cdrecord sends data to the drive telling it to
burn a file system on it.
Ah! Based on this remark, also as made
by Scott Hemphill in his followup,
I realized that, okay, you just start
writing to a blank CD. Same goes for
getting the track numbers from a partially
filled CD -- you just execute cdrecord
with -msinfo. (But first, I had to get my
device designation, ATA:1,1,0, correct.)
And all of that is why I suggest an executable file rather than a command line. It can and will get worse than that.
What had confused me was the structure
of the tutorial I cited, which states,
ahead of where it gets down to the business
of recording, that "Data CD's must be
mounted before one may access them."
In the context, such a "Note" apparently
is gratuitous and irrelevant.
It is always a debate between too much and too little. In any event FC4 automounted burned disks so I do not see the point of any note.
So, just now, I was able to write a test
directory to a blank CD after making it
into a .iso. As you say, though, it
"disappears" the directory and writes
the contents file by file. It would be
nice to retain directories -- the way I
can with Nero under Windows XP --
There is a Nero for linux if that makes you more comfortable. Go to their website. I presume it is a functional clone of the Windows version as I don't see any reason for it not to be. They have a trial download that it not particularly annoying and online purchase of a registration key. If you go this route use yum to install it so you can uninstall it and reinstall it if you are quite ready to buy after the trial period.
yum --nogpgcheck localinstall nero-linux.rpm
or something like that.
I currently use Nero because cdrecord refuses to correctly burn on my TSST drive. Why not is still a mystery to me. I've been procrastinating replacing it with a Sony drive.
but maybe that's asking too much of
a Linux command-line utility. For the
time being, though, it will work as a
backup for digital images, which is
my immediate need.
Everything strange may apply to some particular kind of burning session so again when you have your next problem please be certain to describe what you are trying to do.
To retain directories make them subdirectories of the directory that is the target of mkisofs.
Say for example you are making a DVD to watch on TV. You would have a directory to identify the collection and a subdirectory under it would be a directory named video_ts with the VOB, IDX and other file types. But then your VOB files can be no larger than 1 GB each and other issues.
It all does work very nicely but because they are all things to all people there are a lot of quirks to it which are not clear at first and at times not at second or at third.
I can assure you I only know a few of the things which can be done after years of burning disks.
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