QNX RTOS v4 Knowledge Base
QNX RTOS v4 Knowledge Base
| Title |
Recording CD's under QNX4 |
| Ref. No. |
QNX.000005348 |
| Category(ies) |
Utilities, Filesystem |
| Issue |
We know that QNX4 don't have drivers for CD writers, however if we want to burn a CD for QNX is there a work around or a third party solution?
|
| Solution |
There are two possible solutions for QNX 4.
There is currently a third party software company called "Young Minds". They provide a solution for recording CD's under QNX4. More information on this can be located here:
http://partners.qnx.com/vendors/partner.qnx?company=Young+Minds,+Inc.&product=CD+Studio
Another possible solution, for QNX 4 is to create the ISO image on the system and then copy the ISO image over the network to another system that can record CD's from ISO images. Or to copy the image to a DOS partition on the system. To do this the following steps must be followed:
How to write a CD that contains QNX data:
(Note this example uses Windows to create the CD, any other capable OS that can burn an ISO image can be used).
1. Run "Fatfsys".
2. Make certain that there is room on the Dos partition for the image (.iso). Also sort the files that you wish to create into a CD into a single directory and sort them as you would like them on the CD.
3. Download the mkisofs util from QUICS, can be found here:
ftp://ftp.qnx.com/usr/free/qnx4/gnu/mkisofs-1.11.1.tgz
4. Type the following to create a new ISO image in your dos system.
"/usr/gnu/mkisofs -R -a -o /dos/[X]/<new-iso-image-name> <files & path>"
Where X is the location that you wish to create the image (remove /dos/ if not copying to a DOS partition).
5. Reboot system into Windows (skip this if Windows PC is on network and is currently running Windows).
6. Using your Windows based CD writing utility open the .iso image and burn it to a blank CD. Make sure that 8.3 filename format is NOT selected, otherwise the CD will result in mangled file names.
****NOTE: If you have a network that is also running NFS you can create the ISO image on a local hard drive then copy it over to the Windows machine to get burned. This way you won't have to use Fatfsys. |
|
