Burn dvd

[Stenull]

Hi!
On my nas i have an old dvd burner, and sometimes i want to burn a iso or so.
I see that in freebsd there is mkisofs, and i found out that mkisofs is in cdrtools pkg.
Is it just to install cdrtools and start burning or is there something else i need to think about?

would something like

Code:

pkg_add -v -r cdrtools

work?

 

[jgreco]

Possibly. Haven't tried the package system.

But what you *can* do, pretty much for sure, is:

cd /mnt/yourdatastore
ftp ftp.freebsd.org
cd /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/8.2-RELEASE/packages/All
get cdrtools-3.00_1.tbz
quit
tar zxf cdrtools-3.00_1.tbz bin/mkisofs

because mkisofs is a static executable, and doesn't seem to have any dependencies. I haven't tried that either but I can't think of any reason it *wouldn't* work. Make sure to match amd64 or i386, etc. I would think that most of the rest of what you need is still included in FreeNAS. But, again, I haven't tried any of this, you may have to experiment a bit.

 

[Stenull]

Thanx for input jgreco, i will experiment :)
Is there a way to rollback if it seems to fuck up something when using pkg_add?

 

[jgreco]

Using my technique would avoid any pkg_add complications, which is one of several advantages. The baggage added by pkg_add is mostly not-useful and not-relevant to FreeNAS, but if you try it and it goes south, you can always save your config, reload FreeNAS, and upload your config again.

 

[Stenull]

ok so i did some experimenting and followed your lead,
First hickup was to log in to ftp server, i found
user = anonymous
password = PASS
to work. Then just following your example worked splendid.
So after more reading it seems that mkisofs is not for burning and i should use cdrecord instead.
After some tying i found out that it couldn't burn dvds larger than 4gb so i had to grab growisofs instead and ist a part of dvd+rw-tools.
so i found a nice command

Code:

bin/growisofs* -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/mnt/path/to/Youriso.iso

and it works... but i was burning a small iso into a dual layer dvd so growisofs complained and aborted operation :( so now im of to buy som cd's ....

Thats my input, hope it helps someone..

 

[Stenull]

Update,
so i manage to burn freenas 8.0.3 iso to a cd from my freenas.

Code:

bin/cdrecord* dev=2,0,0 /mnt/Tank1/Media/FreeNAS-8.0.3-RC3-x64.iso

My burner was on device 2,0,0. To find out the device number use command

Code:

cdrecord -scanbus