At Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:38:40 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > Dear All > I need to burn data cd on my CentOS and open the pdf file on my MS Windows > client . My cd drive is at /dev/cdrom that is mounted as /mnt/cdrom . To > this end , I issued as the following : > #cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom myfile > But the file cannot be opened on ms MS Windows , nor the cd is usable > afterwards . Can you please let me know how can I burn this data cd ? > Thank you Is myfile an ISO9660 file system? That is did you do something like: mkisofs -o myfile somedirectory where somedirectory is a *directory* containing: somefile.pdf 'man mkisofs' for all of the details for making an ISO9660 file system image > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/