burn cd's (old info for the mac cd burner)

new!! info for helen cd-burner

Helen has a Ricoh(?) CD-R/RW RW7060S

That's a 6x record, 4x rewrite and 24x read 

To burn cd's you combine two programs

mkisofs & cdrecord

mkisofs creates a "cd image" on disk
cdrecord burns the image on the cd
mkisofs repaces the older mkhybrid

There are too many options so look at
the man pages, man mkisofs and man cdrecord
and then update this info page for the rest of us.

Quick start: 

If your files are already on helen: put your files on a 
subdirectory on helen, cd to it and type:

mkisofs -hfs -J -r -T -V "CD VOLUME NAME" -v . | cdrecord -v  -

[options explained: hfs=mac compatible J=windows compatible
r=unix compatible -T=dos compatible -V verbose]

If your files are on a subdirectory on a unix box, use
ssh as follows:

mkisofs -hfs -J -r -T -V "CD VOLUME NAME" -v . | ssh helen.cs-i cdrecord -v -

If you already have a disk image file, just burn it with this command

cdrecord -v yourimage.filename

good luck!

REMEMBER TO DELETE THE IMAGE FILE AFTER YOU'RE DONE!

Pablo 10/17/00, 12/5/00