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Author: KevinO
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Subject: An embarrassing admission
If you want a GUI tool I suggest gcombust. For simple data disks, the command
line is easier and faster.

All of the GUI tools are front-ends for cdrecord, mkisofs, dd etc.. They all
use these command-line tools to do the actual work, behind the scenes...

Chris Gehlker wrote:
> I have a little iBook with a read only DVD drive, a big old LaCie CD
> burner, a bunch of blank disks and a nice set of YDL install disks. I
> wouldn't mind showing up at the InstallFest and duping YDL for anyone
> who wants to try out a popular Mac distribution. But, here comes the
> embarrassing part, I have no clue how to do this under Linux. Under OSX
> I know how to set things up so the burner drive just streams out dups of
> what's in the reader drive. Under Linux I don't even know how to get the
> iBook to open the drive when it's empty.
>
> I have recently discovered that *Linux has no hdiutil*. I sure it has
> something else just as nice but I'm clueless and I may not catch a clue
> before the InstallFest.
>
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KevinO

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