[ILUG] DVD install

[Gavin McCullagh]

Seems like when the Mount Rainer filesystem comes into being it'll have
been designed for this type of thing.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22617.html

Gavin

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Niall O Broin wrote:

> 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
> 
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