Creating CDs for GEOTAIL

• Use the CDs that are already on the input spindle. If there are fewer than 10, you'll need to put more (from the FAST pool of new CDs) on.
• Login to "juneau" as user "sdt" (get password from Tim)
• cd ~/scripts
• GEOTAIL_CD_GEN label
  
  where "label" is of the following format:
  • MONTH_YEAR_FIRSTHALF or MONTH_YEAR_SECONDHALF
    depending on which half of the month that is being written to the CD writer.
  • For instance, the second half of October 1998 would have the label:
    
    OCTOBER_1998_SECONDHALF
    
    and the first half of January 2000 would be:
    
    JANUARY_2000_FIRSTHALF
• The process requires around 65 minutes. Here are important messages that you will see:
  • Finished dumping CD-ROM image
  • Done premastering
• At this point, the Young Minds' software has finished with the data in the staging areas on:
  
  /disks/helios/disk4/geotail
  
  You probably will see a set of lines, output by the CD-labelling software:
  • Retrieving print information for GEOTAIL
  • Retrieving volume information...
  • Error : Unable to retrieve volume information from GEOTAIL
  • Converting to PostScript...
  • Converting to PBMRAW...
  • Merging template data...
  • Output data to printer device...
  Don't worry about the "Error" line - that apparently happens for the FAST CD generation as well. Although it is not yet understood, it does not have any effect on the label.
• Meanwhile, the CD-writer will output, when it finishes each CD cut for the current half-month:
  
  • Done cutting first copy
  • Done cutting second copy
  The process ends when: "Done cutting second copy" is echoed.
  You can log out of "juneau".
• Remove the 2 CDs from the Out-Spindle.
• Put the CDs in the sleeves and return them to Jack Vernetti in room 340 of the old SSL building.

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