On Sunday 24 Feb 2002 00:45, dep wrote:
> this is really embarrassing.
>
> i've been burning cds right and left for awhile now, no problem other
> than the generally counterintuitive controls on xcdroast and the much
> worse koncd.
>
> this evening i realized that i've never burned an iso image and, a
> couple of wasted cds later, that i do not know how to.
>
> the goal is to make one of the nice 16-mb bootable gentoo install cds.
> there is on the planet a distribution that doesn't recklessly piss
> away system resources, and gentoo seems the likeliest.
>
> problem is, xcdroast burns a nice cd with a copy of the iso file on
> it, rather than using the iso file to create a nice bootable cd that
> does as it's supposed to do.
>
> it clearly can be done; just as clearly, i have no idea how to do it.
>
> help???

#!/bin/sh
# Burn CD from ISO
cdrecord -eject -v -data speed=2 dev=3,0 <ISONAME>

man cdrecord
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