On December 20, 2005 08:46 am, Mel Walters wrote: > On December 20, 2005 05:21 pm, Michael Walters wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I have forgotten how to burn a live CD of my iso and can not find it in > > my notes. I also do not know where on the net to look. I can burn a > > backup of the iso itself using K3B but want to burn a live CD and then > > want to install KANOTIX--2005-03 on my hard drive. I have already backed > > up my home directory and backed up my iso to my windows drive and burned > > two iso raw image CD's. > > > > Any and all help will be appreciated. Perhaps my brother Mel Walters > > might walk me through the precess of installing KANOTIX and restoring my > > back up home directory. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael Walters > > I already told you were to look (man cdrecord) on your off list request. > When you burn the ISO following the line out of the man page, that should > produce the bootable CD. I am having some difficulty seeing your problem. > Have you tried this yet? > > Regards, Mel Walters
I can see I made a misstake here. I must have mail filtering setup weird on my machine, so I thought Michael's email was sent to me and not the list. Sorry about that! So if you do not mind Michael, I'll just quote your email below. I think it will bring up some interesting topics and questions. <quote> Hello Mel, I copied out 11 pages of man cdrecord before I noticed that this was less than half of the man pages for cdrecord. I do not know how to navigate to exactly where I want to be in the man cdrecord pages to answer my questions. I am replying to you off list as your requested. I do not know how you can not see that I have a problem when I have over 22 man pages to look through to find the solutions I seek. Please believe me when I say that the large volume of the man pages is a barrier to me. Blessings, Michael <end_of_quote> First the quick answer: cdrecord -v speed=32 dev=0,1,0 cdimage.raw My system I setup for ATAPI and not IDE-SCSI emulation, so here is what I might use: cdrecord -v -dao speed=32 dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 KANOTIX-2005-03.iso I found were my favorite burner was with: cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI: I am glad Michael got an answer right away on a GUI burner solution, that is great. As I told Michael, the program he was using did not want to install on my system at the time and I was using some other GUI burner programs when I bother to use them at all. Now a question: Why would I find a command line program so easy and others have the apposite experience? My first experience with computer documentation was in-house company reference manuals written for me, the technical person looking after it. This company system manual only partly resembled man pages especially when I got into Linux around 1995 (kernel 1.2) My former company's (Honeywell Control Systems bought them later) book had exact examples and not just generalized descriptions. But Linux Man pages were harder to use, but Linux man pages are somewhat better now with more real world examples to follow. They reside some where towards the rear of the man page. I do not print out man pages to follow them, but prefer to look at them on the screen (as per design) and use the search function or brouse(skip ahead to the examples). Some readme files do lend to being printed for reference, but I never liked to with man pages. I like "seeing under the hood" sort of speak, and when I first tried dev=ATAPI:, it was after venturing past and beyond all the dire warnings that Joerg Schilling put in front of me. I can kinda see his stance on support and all that, but I wanted to get on with using the new fangled stuff. Many people would not be interested at all in the direction or the way I do things in Linux. But then again, a few others just might be, and do things similar to me. Part of the variety in Linux is we get to make all of these kind of choices as we go. <End of boring mode> Mel Walters
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