On Monday 11 Apr 2005 11:54 am, Manas Laha wrote: > J.Bakshi wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I am a Xcdroast and K3B user. these two frontends actually depend on > >*cdrecord* to a great extent. I am very much interested to know about > > > >1) how can I copy a file/folder to a writeable cd using cdrecord command ? > >2) is it possible to diskcopy (cd to cd) using cdrecord command ? (here > > reader and writer both are same drive) > >3) how to burn a cd image using cdrecord ? > > > >thanks for your time. > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > >"unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > >FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > > 1) how can I copy a file/folder to a writeable cd using cdrecord command ? > > This requires two steps, and sufficient free disk space. Assuming that > all the files you wish to write to the CD are contained in the directory > ~/myfiles and that your /tmp directory has sufficient free space to hold > the resulting ISO filesystem (which will be somewhat larger that the > total space taken up by all the files in ~/myfiles), you first create an > ISO filesystem: > > mkisofs -J -r -o /tmp/x.iso ~/myfiles > > The -r ensures you get long filenames when you read the CD in Linux and > the -J ensures that you get the same in Windows. Then you burn this > x.iso to the CD with cdrecord: > > cdrecord -v -data -multi speed=16 dev=X.Y.Z > driveropts=burnproof -eject /tmp/x.iso > > Here the speed value is set acccording to what is indicated on your CD; > I've found that cdrecord works best with the speed set close to the > maximum allowable. The X, Y & Z have to be determined for your system > with the 'cdrecord -scanbus' command; for example, on my system X = Y = > Z = 0. > > With this you can write to a blank CD; the -multi option keeps live the > possibility of adding more files later (multi-session). > > 2) is it possible to diskcopy (cd to cd) using cdrecord command ? (here > reader and writer both are same drive) > > Again, a two-step process, for the first of which you put the original > CD in the drive, mount it as usual, and say: > > dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/tmp/x.iso bs=1024 > > Assuming that your CD drive is indeed /dev/scd0, this will dump the > entire contents of the CD in a raw format to the file /tmp/x.iso on your > hard disk. > > The second step is to write this out to a blank CD using cdrecord, > exactly as for case (1). > > - Manas Laha
A very good documentation on cdrecord. a-lot-of-thanks. I have just found *cdw* a ncurses based frontend based on cdrecord for console. *gcdw* is the graphical frontend of the same. #aptitude install cdw this command also installs cdrecord if it is not there. > > > ***************************************** > This Mail is Certified to be Virus Free. > CIC Network Security Group, IIT Kharagpur > ***************************************** > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
