making a cd image of a directory

[Gregory Nowak]

Sorry about that.  Since Danny's question was straight forward, it sounded to me like he had done it before, and just needed a mind refresher on how to get started. Of course, Janina's message below is correct, but I would recommend that you read the cd writing howto to get the full story.
Greg


On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:19:58PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > mkisofs -r -o cdimage.iso dirname/
> Yes, but this is only part of the story. This will produce an iso file 
> image called cdimage.iso. Some of the rest of the story might be:
> 
> 1.)	You can give the image any name you want;
> 2.)	There may be other options you might want to specify. Do:
> 
> 	mkisofs --help 2>&1 |more
> 
> 	to see what the options are;
> 3.)	There's still the business of creating a cdrom from the iso image 
> file. For that you need cdrecord, and you may need to install scsi 
> emmulation if you don't have scsi already, somehow;
> 
> 
> 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:16:19PM -0500, Daniel Crone wrote:
> > > I have some files which I want to put on to a cd r.  All the files are in 
> > > one dir.  How should this be done?  Feel free to write me off list if you 
> > > want to do so.
> > > dannyboy at pobox.com
> > > 
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