>>My associate and I have managed to create no less than a dozen new
>>coasters for our cafeteria trying to make a backup copy of the Solaris 8
>>Installation (Boot) CDROMs.
>When experimenting with new burns, CDRW's are invaluable and cost
>saving. The cost of a CDR here is $3, the cost of an eraseable
>CDRW here is $3.50. I can order them from Toronto for $20 a box
>of ten. So cost of CDRW is no concern nowadays.
Good advice but it does assume he has a CDRW capable drive.
>>The closest we've ever heard of such a copy actually working
>>were completely ambiguous "teasers" (conclusively). Such as
>>the infamous one liner from Casper Dik "Use dd and cdrecord"
>Casper Dik sounds like a wise man. If you attack people that
>attempt to help you though, you'll likely get told to take a
>hike.
>
>Well, the info you've been given to use dd and cdrecord is
>enough. If you can't get it to work, then you should ask for
>more help politely. Attacking people helping you is going to get
>you a lot more frisbees. If someone attacked me after giving
>help, I might be prone to give them bad instructions just solely
>so that they DO make some frisbees.
I'm not sure how you read the article but to my eyes it didn't contain
any malice, merely expressed some frustration. I guess my glasses are
rosier today.
I think your message would have been more complete had you included the
instructions required to perform the CD copy. It's more constructive
and doesn't come across as just soapboxing. The XCDRoast idea was good.
