On Dec 29, 2007 1:09 AM, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gus Wirth wrote:
> > Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> >
> >> It's been about a month or so since I downloaded the knoppix dvd iso
> >> image via bit torrent.
> >>
> >> I intended to burn a dvd, but am drawing a blank on how to even get
> >> started. Anyone got a link or man page to point me to?
> >>
> >
> > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=Knoppix.iso
> >
> > See the man page for growisofs.
> >
> > Gus
> >
>
> Any hints on whether I need to be $ or #? (I'd really prefer not to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls > > Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> >
> >> It's been about a month or so since I downloaded the knoppix dvd iso
> >> image via bit torrent.
> >>
> >> I intended to burn a dvd, but am drawing a blank on how to even get
> >> started. Anyone got a link or man page to point me to?
> >>
> >
> > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=Knoppix.iso
> >
> > See the man page for growisofs.
> >
> > Gus
> >
>
> Any hints on whether I need to be $ or #? (I'd really prefer not to
> make any coasters.) The man page talks about avoiding sudo, but doesn't
> specify further, at least not that I could tell.
It depends on details of your system setup. In my system, the cd
writer is owned by group "disk"
and I am a member of group "disk". So it works without having to be root.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /dev/hdc
brw------- 1 cdl disk 22, 0 Dec 5 15:22 /dev/hdc
I think that if you don't have the privilege to use the cd writer, you
will get an error message and nothing else will happen. So you won't
make a coaster.
> And does the command, as stated by you, automatically take care of
> making it bootable? Is that something that is already built into the
> ISO that I downloaded or must it be specified? The man page mentions
> options for Rock-Ridge and Joliet, which IIRC are boot conventions.
The part of the man page that is relevant here is:
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To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso
where image.iso represents an arbitrary object in the filesystem, such
as file, named pipe or device entry. Nothing is growing here and com-
mand name is not intuitive in this context.
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As it says, "the command name is not intuitive in this context". And
the exact command usage is not intuitive either. But it works.
Again, the key word to notice is "pre-mastered".
The token name "/dev/dvd" in the command above may need to be replaced
by something else. In my system, the physical connection to the
CD/DVD writer is /dev/hdc. But there are several symbolic links.
cdrom -> hdc
cdwriter -> hdc
dvd -> hdc
dvdwriter -> hdc
So you can call it by any of those four names, and still get the same result.
carl
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