burning multisession cd's and bootable windows isos

"Dave" <dmehler26woh.rr.com> writes:

> Hello,
> I've got two questions on burning cdr/cdrw disks. I'm
using freebsd
> 5.4-p6 and using cdrtools for cdr/rw and dvd+rw-tools
for dvdr/rw
> burning.
>     My first question has to do with multisession disk
burning, burn
> some, take it out, go back later and write more to the
disk until it's
> full. I've not been able to make this work with either
cd's or dvd's
> and would appreciate a tutorial or howto on
multisession burning.

>From my crib sheet:

  for cdrecord: 

  dv=/dev/acd0
  export CDR_DEVICE=1,0,0
  filenames=be-well.`date "+%y%m%d"`*

  # first session
  mkisofs -R $filenames |cdrecord -v driveropts=burnfree
-multi -data -tao -

  #other sessions
  OFST=`cdrecord -msinfo`
  echo $OFST
  mkisofs -M $dv -C $OFST -R $filenames |cdrecord -v
driveropts=burnfree -tao -multi -data - 

Season to taste.


>     My second question regards burning a windows xp
disk under
> bsd. I've got one, a vanilla xp pro disk and i want to
slipstream
> it. I copy the files from the disk to my windows hard
disk, slipstream
> them with servicepack two plus some additional hardware
drivers, now
> i've got an xpsp2+drivers installation tree. I copy
that over to a
> network share, log on to my bsd machine, and i have no
idea on how to
> use mkisofs to make a bootable iso to burn to disk.
I've tried just
> making an iso of the installtree and burning that with
cdrecord, made
> some coasters that's about it. My goal is to have a
bootable disk thag
> acts just like the original vanilla xp disk, boots
right in to the
> install and so forth.

Have you tried just copying the filesystem image, instead of
the
files?  [But make sure you get all of the tracks, if there
are more
than one.]


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