On Friday 09 August 2002 02:41 am, Tom Whiting wrote: > On Friday 09 August 2002 03:24 am, Robert Fox wrote: > > Could someone shed some light on the correct command to create a set of > > CDs from the latest Cooker (the 700MB Cds) > > > > Thx, > > R.Fox > > According to SOME these work. Unfortunately, I'm in the boat with you here, > and they didn't work (well, they did, but only halfway). > > IF you're running a linux OS already, try burning the ISO's to cd using > your favorite cdr interface. This WILL burn all the related information to > the CD. Unfortunately, it will NOT close the cd, meaning you won't have > ACCESS to it anywhere except at boot (I know, it really boggles the mind > doesn't it). At least it works that way with my cdrw. The cd's not closed, > but it is readable somehow (??) at boot and setup time. > > Under Win, try the same thing, although, I'm not 100% familliar with how > Win progs handle closing cd's, etc. > > The ONLY problem with the larger CD's is that you'll NEVER be able to get > them mounted (ie: you want to upgrade/install xxx package using rpmdrake). > > Unfortunately, there's not really a lot more that can be done. Hopefully > the gurus behind this are working on a solution for the rest of us, altho > who knows. It does seem to be a common problem though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I used an old (1999) Mitsumi (CR-4804TE) 4x4x24 under Mandrake 8.2 and all three disks are just as mountable/readable there and in my Liteon 40X as any other disks. I typed this in a terminal: cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -eject /store/Downloads/MandrakeLinux-9.0beta2-CD1.i586.iso and (after changing the CD number) all three were burned and fixated. The media used were Maxell 700 MB CD-R apparently made by Ritek, whoever they are. :-)
I don't understand why this wouldn't work for anyone after adapting it to their particular set up. i.e.: cdrecord scanbus will give you the device, the speed is whatever your CD-RW supports, the directory name is wherever you saved the ISOs, and the eject is just to remind me to start the next one. You may have to switch to superuser if you aren't in the proper groups though. I'm such a newbie this probably isn't any help, but it works for me. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org "Nine years of ballet, asshole." -- Shelly Long, to the bad guy after making a jump over a gorge that he couldn't quite, in "Outrageous Fortune"
