Mjo wrote:
>
> Okay, I need to access my cd writer to put my downloaded debian on to it, and I
> don't know how. I 'm running SuSE 6.4 which detects the drive as writeable on
> boot up (it's a phillips ide 4x4x24) and I can mount the device when an already
> written CD is in it. I can't mount it with a blank CD. I've read the man page
> for cdwrite and I can't get that to work right either it seems. It keeps
> saying "nothing to do." I just want to unzip my debian onto the cd. Any help
> is greatly appriciated! Thanks! :)
> -Martha Jo
>
<snip>
If you have already an ISO image of the CD, then type
prompt$ cdrecord -v dev=<bus>,<id>,<lun> speed=4 \
/path/to/cdimage.iso
where <bus>,<id> and <lun> are the SCSi bus no, the SCSI-ID of the
device and the SCSI LUN (almost always =0) of the cd-burner device. if
you have no SCSI burner, you have to load the ide-to-scsi emulation
layer (anyone knows the modules names?) and then a new SCSI bus will pop
up in /proc/scsi/scsi
If you have it as directory structure (below /to/burn, say) on harddisk,
then you issue the following:
prompt$ mkisofs -any -options -that -debian -says -to -use | \
cdrecord -v dev=<bus>,<id>,<lun> speed=4 -
HTH,
Marc
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