[PLUG] CD-R, label?

Bill Spears bspears at easystreet.com
Tue Feb 1 23:56:51 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:48 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:33 am, Bill Spears wrote:
> > I use mkisofs and cdrecord to write CD-R's.  How do I give a label to
> > the CDROM.
> > 
> > My OS is Fedora 3.
> 
> Use the -V option for mkisofs, like 
> 
> mkisofs <other options> -V data_disk
> 
> 'data_disk' will show up in winderz explorer as the disk name.
> 
> There are a couple other options you might be interested in.
> 
> -publisher <foo> lets you insert a text string into the volume header, like 
> "Bill's Productions, you copy you die." You can specify a default -publisher 
> tag in .mkisofsrc, with PUBL=<foo>
> 
> -p <foo> is the preparer ID. Something like "this awesome disk prepared by 
> Bill's lackey on 2-1-2005." This also can have a default in .mkisofsrc, 
> PREP=<foo>. Command-line overrides the defaults.
> 
> man mkisofs tells all.

Thanks. Believe it or not, I tried "-V" and  I got an error in cdrecord.
So I removed it and cdrecord worked.  Probably a typo that went
unnoticed.
> 
-- 
Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com>




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