Re: [LUG] CD Writing software

[Paul Weaver <P.J.Weaver@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 26 March 2003 3:56 pm, Alex Charrett scribbled:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Paul Weaver wrote:
> > XCDRoast and other front ends to cd record are rubbish. They all insist I
> > make an ISO before burning. It's been a while, but I'm sure that nero was
> > the only program I've seen that will burn straight off. Copying 650MB of
> > data every time I want to burn a CD is a pain, is there a way to burn
> > without making an ISO before hand?
>
> See my previous mail on this subject today, which mentioned the
> CD-Writing-HOWTO, and said that you can direct copy data cds with:
>

But I dont want to copy a CD, got a load of backups of my final project that I 
need to move off, hundereds of .tar.bz2's. Trouble is I dont have the space 
to create an iso - does "feeding the output of mkisofs directly into 
cdrecord" actually work? The last tiem I tried it it died after about 20 
seconds on a P600/256MB ram?



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