On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 12:40, zentara wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:14:02 -0500 Dennis Tuchler
wrote: Re: SuSE 8.2
Is there a way I can unpack a *.tar package directly onto a CD-RW disk? I didn't see any reference to that in the KDE CD-RW application.
I don't hink you can do that unless you are running an "experimental filesystem" called UDF packet writing. Do a google search for CD-RW UDF (Packet-CD) filesystem
Otherwise, you need to some kind of "virtual filesystem mounted via loop" to make an image, which can be burned.
You might want to try making an virtual filesystem, and write it out when it's full. Something like:
dd if=/dev/zero of=image.iso bs=1024k count=620 /sbin/mke2fs -F -b 2048 image.iso mount -t ext2 -o loop image.iso /mnt/tempimage
Now you can untar things in /mnt/tempimage or do whatever you want. When it gets full, just umount it, and write the isoimage to cd-rw.
Thanks for the information! This is one of those cases where
Windows has it over Linux, according to a Windows user wh tells me she
can unzip packages directly onto a CD-RW using unzip and redirection.
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Dennis Tuchler