Specifications

4.10 How to put even more data on the CD−R?
Use bzip2 instead of any other compressor like gzip or pkzip. It will save you up to 30% of disk−space
for larger (>100kb) files. You can download it from
http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
Instead of writing a true audio CD, you can optionally convert your WAV audio files into MP3 audio files
and store them on a ISO−9660 filesystem as regular files. Usually MPEG III give you a compression of 1:10.
Of course, most CD−players are not able to read files... this is the drawback. On the other hand, why not
running the music for your next party from hard disk? 18 Gbytes are enough for 3000−4000 titles. :−)
A software MPEG III−encoder is available from
http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/
A MPEG III−player is available from
http://www.mpg123.org/
For recorded speech, you may want to try to reduce its size using shorten or "GSM lossy speech
compression":
ftp://svr−ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp.speech/
http://kbs.cs.tu−berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html
4.11 How to make bootable CD−ROMs?
You must have an 1.44 MB bootable floppy−disk. Create an exact image of this floppy−disk by issuing the
command
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=18k
CD−Writing HOWTO
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