On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:49:53PM -0400, Andrew Kae wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Matsushita (Panasonic) 7582 IDE cdr. I've read
> through the CD-Writing Howto but I am still confused about
> one thing.
>
> Is it possible to write files and directories to a cd without making
> an image first? I don't have 650 MB of my hard drive to spare for
> an image file. In Windoze, Adaptec EZ-CD recorder can take in
> a list of files and then just burn them to a cd. It seems to me the
> only way to make data cds is to make an image first and then use
> cdrecord to make the image into a cd.
>
> Can anyone help me out?
I use this little script to write on the fly (taken from the CD-Writing
HOWTO, IIRC):
#!/bin/sh -e
if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
echo Usage: `basename $0` "<dir>"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -d $1 ]; then
echo "$1 is not a directory"
exit 1
fi
mkisofs -r -J --quiet $1 | buffer -s 512k -m 2m | \
cdrecord speed=4 dev=/dev/sg0 -data -
exit 0
##### end
Make sure you install the "buffer" and "mkisofs" packages, and also
check/change the device if needed (probably wont need to). Then run the
command like this:
(assuming you saved the above script as "onthefly" in your cwd)
chmod 755 onthefly # only need to run this the first time
./onthefly mycddir/
It will then take the contents of "mycddir/" and write that as the CD
root, without having to write an intermediate ISO image.
Ben
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