I was interested, so looked...<br><br>this may do what you want<br><br>http://www.muempf.de/<br><br>http://freshmeat.net/projects/multicd/<br><br><br><br><b><i>christopher wyllie <cgwyllie@googlemail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hmm, I was just trying to avoid trying to keep track of what I've burnt and what I haven't.<br><br>Thanks Lee, I kinda follow it. Can tar's output just be /dev/dvd or whatever and it will write as it goes?<br><br> Thanks again<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 24/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chad Wollenberg</b> <<a href="mailto:chad@linuxbasement.com">chad@linuxbasement.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> What distro Lee? Since you only have 20 gigs you might just want to take the easy route and just burn 5
dvds of straight data, don't worry about compression.<div><span class="e" id="q_1184cd3ee816efdf_1"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Lee Hughes <<a href="mailto:toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/splitting_large_files.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/splitting_large_files.html</a><div> <div></div><div><br><br><b><i>christopher wyllie <<a href="mailto:cgwyllie@googlemail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cgwyllie@googlemail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:</div></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px;
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