[buug] data showing as audio on cdrom

Nick Jennings nkj at namodn.com
Tue Nov 5 11:33:47 PST 2002


Hi Al,

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:25:24AM -1000, al plant wrote:
> I have recently installed an IDE Sony CDRW on a FreeBSD box and it works
> fine using the audio command line for duplicating cd files. Audio CD's
> burn and run ok.
> 
> When I down loaded a FreeBSD 4.7 ISO and tried to burn it to disk it
> seemed to work fine using this command.
> 
> # burncd -f /dev/acd0c data nameoffile.iso fixate
>
> Mounting and looking at the files on the new CD it seems ok.
> 
> However, when you go to use the cd to install FreeBSD on to a box an
> error occurs.
> 
> "this seems to be an audio disk"  Is what it says.


Try specifying that the ISO is 'data'

# burncd -f /dev/acd0c data nameoffile.iso fixate


- Nick Jennings




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