CD-Writing Information
Related Links
- Andy McFadden's
CD-Recordable FAQ
- Mike Richter has a primer on CD-R at
http://www.mrichter.com/.
- Octave's CD-Recordable Handbook is available in HTML from
http://www.octave.com/library/ricoh/cdrhandbook.html.
- Adaptec has a lot of information at
http://www.adaptec.com/cdrec/.
-
Mini-Howto for verifying a selfmade CD
- Some hints for
Linux users
of any of the schily (SING) tools.
- The CD-ROM Shopper's Guide
- Andy McFadden's
CD drive comparison list
Newsgroups
CREATING ISO9660 FILES
(and creating CDs from them)
Creating the ISO Image
You have to use the mkisofs program to do this.
Mounting ISO Image Files as Filesystems
You can mount an iso image as a file system like this:
Solaris
You can check the filesystem image by mounting it with Joerg
Schilling's "fbk" on Solaris.
mount -r -F fbk -o type=hsfs /dev/fbk0:isoimage.raw /mnt
Linux
Use the loopback device on Linux. Type:
mount isoimage.raw -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt
Checking ISO Image File Systems
(cd /master_for_cd; star -cPM .)|(cd /mnt; star -diff -v)
star can be found at
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star
Related Known Bugs in LInux and Solaris
- Linux/mkisofs < 1.10
Mkisofs before 1.10 and Linux have a bug with timezones. If you
are using mkisofs-1.10 and newer on Linux, you need to disable
comparing times:
(cd /master_for_cd; star -cPM .)|(cd /cdrom; star -diff -v diffopts=!times)
- Solaris/mkisofs < mkisofs 1.10
Solaris has a bug with hardlinks. It generates different inode
numbers for the hardlinks to a file. This makes it impossible for
star to check hard links. Use:
(cd /master_for_cd; star -cPM .)|(cd /cdrom; star -diff -v diffopts=!hardlink)
in this case.
Burning CD-ROMS from ISO9660 files
This section is pretty much lifted right out of Joerg Schilling's
Mini-Howto for verifying a selfmade CD
This command dumps the image to the ROM burner:
dd if=/remote/cm_spare/eberg/source.iso of=/dev/rst1 bs=32k
And this sends it from the ROM burning device to the actual ROM:
mt -f /dev/rst1 fsf
Software
CDRECORD
Last modified: Fri Aug 24 15:01:20 EDT 2001