[ILUG] DVD install

[Niall O Broin]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:41:51PM +0000, Ronny B wrote:

> This reminds me of another annoyance with CDs - people sitting there with EZ
> CD Wossname and dumping 100MB at a time into sessions on a CD-R without
> creating an image first. It makes for *really* slow CDs. I had one patch CD
> (~600MB of updates to games, plus add-ons) burned this way. Each patch is
> typically from 1-10MB. All scattered randomly about a CD. *shiver*
> 
> I'd have thought the tools were able to cache up a little at a time before
> writing, sorting the directories in the process, but no such luck. I'll go
> for mkisofs+cdrecord (or X-CD-Roast as a frontend to the same) any day ;)

I used this (packet writing) for the first time recently. I've no doubt that
it doesn't result in a very "nice" use of the CD but it's a piece of cake
for Joe Six Pack or in this case my aging uncle who is an avid if slightly
clueless PC user. Having bought himself a shiny new Dell box with a CD-RW I
formatted a CD for packet writing and showed him how to back up his rather
small collection of documents by simply dragging and dropping them to the
CD. Sure, he's not using the CD as efficiently as possible but it's easy for
him, which makes my life easier, I can tell you :-)

Have a look at http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net - the second paragraph sums
it up nicely.



Niall