[PLUG] Burn some directories to a CD

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> Is there a method _from the commandline_ besides installing some backup
> software to _some_ directories and their contents do a CD that will only
> be used on Linux systems.  Damn the iso9660, HPFS, Joliet, etc.
>
> I've been looking at the man pages for over an hour but they are all
> excited about MACS and Windows systems.  I've done this before (3+ years
> ago) but lost my notes when I did a system/OS upgrade that went bad.
> (Should have backed up better eh?  ;-)

Rod,

   I'm not at all sure I understand what you want to do. But, let me take a
wild stab at it.

   Read 'man mkisofs', then run it from the command line to make an image
that cdrecord (or it's successor whose name I forget just now; perhaps
cdrtools) can carefully lay down on a cd-r for you. You can feed mkisofs a
directory into which you have copied all that you want to preserve for
future generations.

Rich

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