On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:52:38PM -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: > If I'm doomed and must use the console to burn cd-r, cd-rw, dvd-r, and > dvd-rw's, does anyone have some linkage to a nice tutorial describing > how to do it?
You probably have some how-tos in a subdirectory of /usr/share/doc/HOWTO. Look for the CD-Writing-HOWTO. Maybe there's some info in DVD-Playback-HOWTO as well. Basically for CDs (I have no DVDs): - put the files you want in a directory - make an iso (=image) file of that directory with mkisofs. Read `man mkisofs'. - Optionally try to mount the image file via loopback to test if it works. You usually need to be root for this to work: mount -t iso9660 -o -ro,loop=/dev/loop0 <name of isofile> /cdrom Now you can check the contents of /cdrom to see if they are what you expect them to be. Do `umount /cdrom' after this. - burn the iso file with cdrecord. See `man cdrecord' and indeed the CD-Writing-HOWTO. To clear a CD-RW, use `cdrecord -blank=fast' or `cdrecord -blank=all'. You need to set some defaults in /etc/default/cdrecord or add info to the commandline on where cdrecord can find the actual device and how fast it should burn. Burning under Linux kernel 2.4 is different from kernel 2.6. Most info could be specific for 2.4 so watch out there. This works for me, but a graphical program like k3b is more userfriendly and /should/ also function. So I hope you can get that to work with some help from the list. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]