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Aborted – This project was only ever of mild interest, as I find burning multiple sessions to be quite satisfactory. Below are some rough-ish notes.. I never actually pursued anything for this project.

See also:

• Backing up CDs

• Packet-CD

  • This project appears to be dead since Dec 2000
  • Patch
    — https://web.archive.org/web/20070227033336/http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/udftools-1.0.0b3.patch.bz2
    — packet-2.4.32.patch.bz2 was not archived

How to install and configure packet writing support ∞

Rowan Klöti (rowan_at_swissonline.ch)

https://web.archive.org/web/20040123061802/http://lists.suse.com/archive/packet-writing/2002-Aug/0083.html

It’s fairly straightforward, as long as you’ve compiled a kernel before:

Download kernel source plus matching packet-writing patch.

Unzip and patch kernel – (for 2.4.19):

tar -xzf linux-2.4.19.tar.gz   # for Gzipped source
tar -xIf linux.tar.bz2         # for source that has been compressed with Bzip2

mv linux-2.4.19 linux

(so that the patch can work correctly, by default, the source tar file unzips to ./linux-[kernelversion], but the pktcdvd patch presumes ./linux)

bzip2 -d packet-2.4.19-2.patch.bz2

patch -p0 < packet-2.4.19-2.patch

Configure kernel:

make menuconfig

Remember to enable pktcdvd under the ‘block devices’ menu, and to compile UDF with write support.

Get and compile UDFtools.

Add pktsetup /dev/cdrom /dev/pktcdvd0 somewhere to your startup scripts. (like rc.local on an RedHat system)

Add an appropriate line to fstab (/etc/fstab)

Compile and install kernel then reboot:

make dep modules modules_install bzImage
cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.19
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.4.19
reboot

• Modify GRUB (grub.conf) or LILO (lilo.conf) and then run either grub or lilo.
• Reboot

• Run depmod if that has not already been done.

Once pktsetup is run, you should get some feedback telling whether the module is working or not.

If so, try mounting a CD-R/W disc. (mount -t udf /dev/pktcdvd /mnt/cdrom as root)