Re: [gentoo-user] having problems getting burned cds to work

[Dale]

bitlord wrote:
> On Mon, 25 May 2015 22:27:39 -0400
> covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
>
>> Hi.  I am trying to burn an iso image to a cd (maybe its actually a
>> dvd disk), and it boots without any errors, and I can mount the iso
>> with the loop option, but if I try to mount the cd, it complains
>> about ufs file systems, and if I try to mount with -t iso9660, it
>> just says bad file type or bad superblock and the disk is unusable.
>> Nothing interesting in the logs, it just says the same about ufs and
>> nothing about iso9660.
>>
>> I am using cdrecord from cdrtools-3.01_alpha28 and I am running the
>> unstable version of gentoo.
>>
>> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>>
> Sorry, I know nothing about standards, optical media and filesystems,
> and don't understand how it works, once I had some issues with mounting
> optical media, also missing a filesystem which I fixed with enabling
> CONFIG_UDF_FS in kernel. I tried to read about UDF... before replying,
> but it is too much for me, if I understand it correctly it is not just
> what is written to the media but also how (different modes, for adding
> more data later ...), so may be some option while burning media that
> allows you to use free space left on the disk.
> If this is not useful just ignore it. ;-)
>
>

Same boat here.  From what I understand, if it is more than 2GBs, it
needs UDF support.  No idea if that applies to ISOs to tho. 

Dale

:-)  :-)