Burning a data CD

[Asheville Joe]

Thanks for such a detailed answer! mkisofs worked (once I replaced ~ 
with /home/bigbird.  (mkisofs didn't want to run without being root.)
I figured out the cdrecord parameters, but I don't have a /mnt/loop.  
How do I create one?  It's not just a mkdir, is it?

Joe

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>mkisofs -J -o cdimage.iso ~/Documents
>
> The above makes an ISO image of the ~/ (home dir) Documents folder.  the
>contents of the Documents folder will show up on the root directory of the
>cdrom..  The "-J" argument makes the cd image in joliet format which preserves
>long filenames for windoze...
>
>Before you burn it should mount the image you created and make sure it looks
>the way you want.  To do so, run "mount cdimage.iso /mnt/loop -oloop" (you
>should be root to do this..)  Make sure /mnt/loop exists (you could mount it
>anywhere,  but having /mnt/loop around is handy just for this purpose.)
>Everything under /mnt/loop will look exactly how the CD will after you burn it
>to a physical disc below.    After you're done checking the mounted image, cd
>out of the folder (/mnt/loop) to someplace else (home dir is a smart choice),
>make sure you unmount /mnt/loop (umount/mnt/loop) and then follow up with the
>burn command below...
>
>example:
>cdrecord -v -speed=(your CD burn speed), -data -dev=x,y,z (see below),
>cdimage.iso
>
>chaneg the speed line to use the speed at which you wantto write at,  I have a
>12x burner, so I use 12 here...  You can use lower numbers if you want. (like
>if you have media that isn't rated for the speed of your drive (4x rated media
>might wobble if you try to spin it at 12x and cause a coaster...)
>
>x,y,z are the SCSI port, ID, and LUN (logical unit number, usually 0 in 99% of
>most peoples systems)
>
>To find out what your burner is at, run "cdrecord -scanbus" the output will
>look similar to below:
>
>
>dave at shrapnel dave $ cdrecord -scanbus
>Cdrecord 2.01a14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling
>Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
>Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
>scsibus0:
>        0,0,0     0) 'FUJITSU ' 'MAG3182L SUN18G ' '1111' Disk
>        0,1,0     1) *
>        0,2,0     2) 'FUJITSU ' 'MAG3182L SUN18G ' '1111' Disk
>        0,3,0     3) *
>        0,4,0     4) 'FUJITSU ' 'MAG3182L SUN18G ' '1111' Disk
>        0,5,0     5) *
>        0,6,0     6) *
>        0,7,0     7) *
>scsibus1:
>        1,0,0   100) *
>        1,1,0   101) *
>        1,2,0   102) *
>        1,3,0   103) *
>        1,4,0   104) 'GENERIC ' 'CRD-BP3         ' '1.03' Removable CD-ROM
>        1,5,0   105) 'CREATIVE' 'DVD-RAM RAM1216S' '1311' Removable CD-ROM
>        1,6,0   106) *
>        1,7,0   107) *
>
>
>My burner's "dev=" line would use 1 for "x", 4 for "y" and 0 for "z",  so for
>my system my command to burn the cd would be 
>
>cdrecord -v -speed=12 -data -dev=1,4,0 cdimage.iso
>
>If you have a drive that supports "BurnProof" or "BurnFree",  add
>"-driveropts=burnproof" after the "-data" part, if not don't add that..
>
>
>Your ID of your drive is probably different, adjust the above command to taste.
>
>It sounds like a lot as once,  but once you've done it a couple times, it boils
>down to two commands and is pretty easy from the command line. (I prefer this
>way over a gui, unless I'm burning an audio CD....)
>
>
>
>--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>  
>
>>I want to make a CDROM of everything in $HOME/Documents in a format that 
>>Windoze can read.   Individual files will all read in OOo or M$ Office.  
>>I've never done it before.  I need it to be recursive (handle 
>>subdirectories).  What's the easiest way to do this under Mandrake 9.1?
>>
>>I tried X-CD-Roast, and got as far as selecting the Documents directory, 
>>but couldn't figure out how to tell it to get all the files and 
>>subdirectories.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
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>>"Everything you've learned in school as 'obvious' becomes less and less
>>obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids
>>in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no
>>absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines."
>>--R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
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>Dave J. Andruczyk
>
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