Another CDROM Question

[Gregory Nowak]

I have tried to mount an existing iso image with read-write,
but have failed.
You'll need to copy from the cdrw to a directory, make any changes,
and use mkisofs to remake and then reburn the image.
Greg


On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 08:29:10PM -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote:
> 	I am about to buy a CDRW drive for a Linux system and am
> a bit uncertain about something.
> 
> 	I am familiar with being able to mount CDROM's from
> /dev/hdc, for instance, and then reading all files and
> directories like any normal file system.
> 
> 	If I burn a CDRW disk, do I have to make a new image of
> the whole disk each time I want to add something new or delete an
> old file or is there some technique that resembles floppy or
> hard-drive access in which one simply adds new files to the
> system until there is no more space.
> 
> 	I was thinking of possibly using CDRW's for backup
> purposes, hopefully with dump and restore.
> 
> 	It goes without saying that I will also want to make
> audio CD's and CDROMS to archive my old open-reel tapes, etc.
> 
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
> OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group
> 
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