Burning CDs on an IDE CD-RW This article describes how I use cdrecord to burn CDs on my IDE CD-RW. I also have a SCSI CD-RW; cdrecord – writing your own CDs describe how I use the SCSI drive with cdrecord. My thanks to Pav Lucistnik for his help in understanding the problem and working …
Already scanned directory – mkisofs problems mkisofs is a tool for creating an ISO file system. I first wrote about it when talking about cdrecord, the tool I use for burning my CDs. Today I decided to burn some of my source code onto CD. After doing that, I decided to verify the burn by …
mounting an ISO image This is how to mount an ISO image. Actually, it can be used for other images as well. See the note at the end of this article for details. If you have just created an ISO image, say with mkisofs, there is a way to mount the image and view it …
FTP from a CD-ROM This article shows you how to mount a CD-ROM so it can be accessed via anonymous ftp. If you are using a 4CD set, and want to allow others to install from this CD, then you want disc 1 from that set. If you do not have an FTP server set …
Mounting a SCSI CD-ROM This section shows you how I figured out how to mount my SCSI CD -ROM. It wasn’t easy. I had just installed 2.2.8 on a machine which would server as an FTP server for an upcoming install-a-thon [that is an event experienced FreeBSD users help novices install FreeBSD on their machines]. …
Shortcut for compiling from CD-ROM This section shows you how to make a symbolic link which will make your port building from CD-ROM much faster. That said, I couldn’t make this work. I think perhaps you also need the port skeltons. But I’m not sure. Good luck You may wish to refer to the FreeBSD …
CD-ROM saga (a funny story) After much delay, for what reason, I don’t know, I finally dropped into Quay Computers and bought a CD-ROM. Not a flash one, just an old 24x speed which had a 30 day warranty. A decent deal for NZ$95. I planned to install it that night, but something else …
quickly mounting the CD-ROM – an addenda to the CD-ROM saga. Read More »
CD-ROM saga (a funny story) After much delay, for what reason, I don’t know, I finally dropped into Quay Computers and bought a CD-ROM. Not a flash one, just an old 24x speed which had a 30 day warranty. A decent deal for NZ$95. I planned to install it that night, but something else …