On 30-Jul-2001 Felix Miata wrote:
> My immediate goal is to get a bootable Mandrake 8 CD and install it in
> place of 7.1 on #3.
>
> The only CD writing I've done so far is with the windoze software that
> came with the Yamaha (Adaptec whatever), installed on the SCSI HD in the
> external SCSI HD, using machine #2 & windoze. I've not yet burned from
> an ISO. I'd *like* to do all current and future writing using Mandrake
> Linux if possible, but not if it means an elaborate setting up in 7.1
> that will be summarily scrapped in order to replace the 7.1 installation
> with 8.0. The reality is if the windoze Adaptec software can easily
> create the Mandrake 8 CD from an ISO, but this is something I don't know
> either. That software, like most free and cheap software, came with no
> printed docs to check.
>
> I've browsed Linux/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO and its FTP link to various
> cdrecord versions. My initial impression is this is a bear to get set up
> - unless, my "easy" (default) installation of Mandrake 7.1 has already
> done what I need.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1-Can it be said unequivocally that my Mandrake 7.1 is already set up &
> ready to burn?
Probably yes. You have to install the cdrecord rpm if this isn't already done.
If it is installed do a cdrecord -scanbus. This will scan your scsi bus for
your cd recorder. Remember the three numbers you get in the line of your
recorder. Then you just have to do a
cdrecord -v -eject speed=xx dev=a,b,c filename.iso
where xx is the speed of your cdrecorder. a,b,c are the values you got from
cdrecord -scanbus (a is the number of the scsi bus, b is the scsi id, and is
the lun.)
>
> 2-If 1 is false, is there an easier way than digesting the whole of the
> (not too good IMO) HOWTO to figure out what is and is not already
> prepared?
You want to try xcdroast (doesn't come with LM AFAIK). It's a
quite good graphical frontend for cd-burning. You must have mkisofs and cdrecord
installed in.
> 3-Is there someplace better than the HOWTO to explain CD writing under
> Linux?
The actual CD-Burning is easy. I think the HOWTO is quite good altough it
doesn't disdinguish between basic and advanced issues.
If I want to burn a data cd on my system is just do a
mkisofs -v -R -J -T -l -o filname.iso directory-with-data
cdrecord -v -eject speed=xx dev=a,b,c filename.iso
That's it...
Or I use xcdroast.
Note on burning under windoze:
I think you got adaptec easy cd cdreator, which supports burning iso files. But
have another name for it (i think something like CD-Image or RAW,...)
Hope this helps
Gregor
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E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30-Jul-2001
Time: 17:14:36
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