On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Einar Sundgren wrote:
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> I�m thinking of buying a cd-burner to my computer and will probably do so
> within a week. The problem is that most cd-burners come with win-only software.
> I did a search for burner programs and looked at linuxberg and freshmeat, and
> found quite a few, the problem is that there are too many.
> Has anybody here experience of cd-burners under linux ? What is the best
> program ? i would also like if the program could burn an (dd or another) image
> of another cd to make an exact copy ie. bootable and/or playable as music cd in
> an ordinary cd player.
> I don�t know yet if i�m going to buy a SCSI or EIDE burner if that is relevant
> for the software
I bought a second hand double speed SCSI HP writer some time ago, and I
use cdrecord and mkisofs. I think any Linux CD writing app allows you to
write images.
If you are worrying about speed : I can write at double speed on a 486
without any problems.
Frank
> (I don�t know if you say "burn cd" in english but thats a direct translation
> from swedish, I want to write to the cd, but you probably understood that)
> /Einar
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