[wplug] Writing non-iso CD's

[Matthew Danish]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:49:30PM -0500, Coutch, Robert wrote:
> 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?

It burnt the raw tar image to CD.  cdrecord burns images, doesn't do
anything fancy.  I would not be able to untar it from the device
directly, either, if it was really a filesystem.

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