good post craig, a referral to the cd-burning howto at http://www.tldp.org is also probably appropriate.
if you cannot remember the sequence of letters in that url, just think "The Linux Documentation Project" - it should be a first port of call for most setup problems, particularly if you are not breaking new ground. On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:20:10 +1200 CF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 22:10, Joshua Collins wrote: > > Due to forcibly being expunged totally from the windows partition on my > > PC (long story, much pain) I've been forced to burn CDs on my linux > > partition, however, having never tried before, I have no idea where to > > start. > > Such is the turning point in your path. Time to say "bugger the path - > climb this here mountain less travelled." (apologies to Robert Frost) > > > I will google shortly to find out what sort of stuff I need supportwise > > but the main question I wanted here was which program is good for > > burning CDs? I'm running RH9 if it affects anything... > > To make an ISO image of a bunch of files/directories > mkisofs -r -o image.iso files files files > -r makes Rock Ridge extensions so long filenames work better. > -o image.iso stores the output in a file called image.iso in the current > directory. > and files is all the files or directories you want in the ISO. > > To get your CDR working: > Boot with these kernel options (my CDR is hdc and cdrom drive is hdd) > append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=cdrom" > Add that to /etc/lilo.conf for permenancy > When booted, > modprobe ide-scsi > which emulates a scsi device with an existing IDE CDROM drive. > Find your CDR with > cdrecord -scanbus > which returns > > tramadol:~# cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord 2.01a16 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) (C) 1995-2003 J�rg Schilling > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.28 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' > scsibus0: > 0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 9100 ' '1.0c' Removable CDR > 0,1,0 1) * > 0,2,0 2) * > .... > so my CDR is at 0,0,0 > > To record the ISO to a CD > cdrecord -v speed=8 -dev=0,0,0 -data image.iso > -v for verbose > speed=8 for 8-speed writing (you might not be able to use your maximum > burn speed. > -dev-0,0,0 is the address of your CDR as given above > -data image.iso > > --------------------------------------------- > To do Audio: > Rip the tracks off CD > cdparanoia -B > -B is Batch, meaning do the whole CD and auto split at tracks. > > Record all the wav files to CDR > cdrecord -pad -v dev=0,0,0 speed=8 *.wav > Same options as above > -pad means to pad out the sectors to 2352 bytes, filling with 0 for > audio > >
