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Sample session using mkisofs and Samba

This example session shows the commands which could be used to create an ISO9660 image of your newt home directory and send that image file to a share on a Windows computer for CD creation. The advantage of this approach is the majority of work can be done remotely (say, from home), and the only time you have to visit the PC with the CD-RW drive is when you're ready to load your CD-R/W and write the CD.

Create the ISO image

Create an ISO image of your newt home directory and store it in /erased_at_5am_monday/newt.iso. The ISO image creation log will be stored in /tmp/newt.out.

newt> cd
newt> umask 077
newt> mkisofs -lLavrT -o /erased_at_5am_monday/newt.iso . >& /tmp/newt.out

Copy the ISO image to a PC share

Copy the ISO9660 image created by mkisofs to the PUB_E share on the CD-RW drive equipped multimedia PC called GOLIATH.

newt> cd /erased_at_5am_monday
newt> smbclient //goliath/pub_e -N
smb: \> put newt.iso
smb: \> quit

Finish up

Now that your ISO9660 image has been stored on GOLIATH, all that remains to do is load a blank CD-R/W disk in GOLIATH's CD-RW drive and use the Create Disk from Image option in Easy CD Creator to create a CD from the image you earlier stored in the PUB_E share. Once you've successfully created the CD remember to delete the ISO image and log file from newt, and also remove the ISO image on the PC to free up space for other users.


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Physics Computing
2000-06-29