[wplug] Writing non-iso CD's

[Coutch, Robert]

I'm wondering,

Are you sure it burned a pure tar file to the CD or did it put a tar file on
a CD formatted in iso9660?

What happens if you attempt to mount the CD?
If its purely a tar file I would guess it wouldn't mount.
If it's a tar file on a iso CD you would be able to mount it and see a tar
file with ls.

What do you think?

-----Original Message-----
From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:23 AM
To: coutchre at tvratings.com
Subject: Re: [wplug] Writing non-iso CD's


On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:03:17AM -0500, Coutch, Robert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm researching writing non-iso9660 CD's (and non-UDF).
> I wanted to experiment with making a CD with other filesystems on it.
> I tried creating an ext2 image file and burning it out to CD with no
> success.
> 
> I changed my fstab entry to auto for the CD-ROM and it reads iso9660 and
UDF
> CD's just fine.
> 
> I've already though about a loopback file containing another filesystem
> burned to a CD using iso9660
> but this isn't where I was trying to go.
> 
> Has anyone had any success doing this?

I've burnt .tar.gz's using cdrecord just fine, and read them back using
tar directly on the device.  I don't see why burning an ext2 fs would be
any different.  Keep in mind that you don't get the advantages of
iso9660 (such as multi-sessions), but you may not be concerned for such
things.

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