burncd on FreeBSD-6.2

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 23:09:57 +0530 sac <sac at inf.in> wrote:

> On 5/23/07, Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:
>> --On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 22:36:06 +0530 sac <sacchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I was trying to burn cds using burncd. When I try to blank using
>> > `burncd -f /dev/acd0 blank', it hangs forever until I interrupt.
>> > And when I burn data in verbose mode it outputs message saying cd
>> > burnt successfully:
>> >
>> > ====
>> > addr = 0 size = 372736 blocks = 182
>> > writing from file 7.0-CURRENT-200704-i386-disc2.iso size 364 KB
>> > written this track 364 KB (100%) total 364 KB
>> > ====
>> >
>> > but when I try to mount the cd later, I'm unable to do it and the
>> > Input/Output error is thrown. Is there anything I'm missing? Is there
>> > any other way to burn the cd other than using cdrecord.
>> >
>> You need to use fixate:
>>  fixate        Fixate the medium so that the TOC is generated and the
>>                    media can be used in an ordinary CD drive.  The driver
>>                    defaults to creating singlesession media (see -m
>>                    option). Ignored in DAO mode (see -d option).
>>
>> burncd -ef /dev/acd0 data /home/user/cd.iso fixate
>>
>
> Sorry, I forgot to mention that. I used fixate too.

Is the iso really 364KB?  That's awfully small for an iso.  Maybe there's 
something wrong with the image?  I would think that 7.0 Current Disk 2 
would be much larger....like 654MB.

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/