cdrecord - was Re: dd anyone?

KE7FEG eculbert at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 1 11:03:44 MST 2005



--- "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug at shubes.net> wrote:

> Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 09:34, Austin Godber wrote:
> > 
> >>Vaughn Treude wrote:
> >>
> >>>I've been also having a bit of trouble making
> CD's on my Ubuntu system. 
> >>>The CD burner GUI that came with it works fine
> except that I can't
> >>>figure out how to do an ISO with it.  Of course
> the cdrecord tool
> >>>doesn't work because it can't see the device.  I
> may have to get this
> >>>Gnome-Bake program.
> >>
> >>Hi Vaughn,
> >>	Did you read:
> >>/usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup
> >>or the Debian README in the same directory?  These
> should help get you 
> >>going.
> >>
> >>Also did you try specifying ATAPI when you do
> scanbus:
> >>cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI:
> >>
> >>This shows my IDE DVD burner just fine in Ubuntu
> install (5.04 I think).
> > 
> > 
> > That does work, on both Debian and Mandrake. 
> Thanks!  Guess I should
> > have RTFM.
> > 
> > Vaughn
> > 
> > 
> Sorry for chiming in so late on this, but I've been
> out of town for 
> several weeks and am now just catching up.
> 
> I've recently burned a few isos using the Gnome
> desktop (both CentOS and 
> Ubuntu), and it's really quite simple. Open the file
> browser and 
> navigate to the folder where the iso(s) exist, then
> right click the 
> desired file, and select "Write to Disc...". A
> simple little dialog 
> window opens, and away you go...
> 
> -- 
> -Eric 'shubes'

FWIW, I found this usually works on any linux gui I
have used. Just fwiw.

Simpler than opening up the k3b or whatever and
finding the right buttons to push. Apparently most if
not all gui cdrecorder gui's automatically assume
'burn iso' when an iso file is right clicked and the
resulting popup for burn is clicked.

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at many dealers, just fyi.

Long live Knoppix, and Puppy Live Linux cd's.
Complete functional operating systems free if downloaded.


		
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