Sorry, but you can't do it that way. To write to a CD, you actually have to control the CD burner part of the CD device ... it's not just like writing to a filesystem. You do need to use a program like cdecord or cdrdao, that knows how to control the CD drive for burning. For that matter, cdrecord doesn't even know how to burn to an IDE burner -- you need to have a kernel with ide-scsi emulation compiled in and fake a scsi LUN for the drive. (I think this is true of cdrdao too, but I haven't used that app so am not certain.)
What you are probably half remembering is that dd does work in the other direction -- you can dd fom a CD to an ISO image file, pretty much the way you have been trying (but interchanging the if= and of= parts). At 10:03 PM 10/6/02 -0400, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: >First thanks for the previous help that several of you provided. > >Since I have been sort of thinking along these lines I could have sworn >that I >had saved a set of e-mail that told how to make a CD using the dd comand but >all I could find in my repository was a procedure for making an ISO from a >CD. > >Any after the latest crash - crash in this case meaning refusing to boot - of >my MS clunker it has the idea of copying a certain set files to disk became >desirable but mot critical. > >Anyway I tried to execute > >dd if=/home/trunk/file_name of=/dev/cdrom1 > >and a few variation of this on my Linux box as a test without success to see >if I could make a CD from a set of files. > >Usage of a program like CDRoast is not a feasibility as the linux >distribution >I an using is on one floppie. > >Any advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
