Re: knoppix iso for archive

[Roger Searle]

Thanks Chris, I have the ISO on disk now though perhaps should not admit 
to having done so in windows as the below method didn't work and sorry I 
had no time to properly work through why.  I'll get the disk down to the 
centre during the next day or 2.  When are you or Wesley there?  Would 
it be better to drop in your mailbox perhaps?

Cheers,
Roger

Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Gmail is giving me the pip! I didnt press the send honest :-)

Check that everyting looks ok and take out the -dummy flag.
( Command is all on one line of course )

All $DEITIES willing, you will have a DVD in some ( 10s of ) minutes.

I don't necessarily need this as a bootable ISO disk.

The USB-2 Port has yet to actioned, but we could use my lappie as an
intermediate way station. If you can bring the file on a USB device
that would be fine. I have even got an NTFS driver module.


On 12/11/07, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
As Root, try:-

iago ~ # cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright
(C) 1995-2007 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
scsibus0:
        0,0,0     0) 'COMPAQ  ' 'ST15150W        ' '6216' Disk
        0,1,0     1) 'QUANTUM ' 'ATLAS10K2-TY184L' 'DDD6' Disk
        0,2,0     2) *
        0,3,0     3) *
        0,4,0     4) *
        0,5,0     5) *
        0,6,0     6) *
        0,7,0     7) *
scsibus1001:
        1001,0,0 100100) *
        1001,1,0 100101) 'COMBO   ' 'IDE5216CO       ' '0K52' Removable
CD-ROM
        1001,2,0 100102) *
        1001,3,0 100103) *
        1001,4,0 100104) *
        1001,5,0 100105) *
        1001,6,0 100106) *
        1001,7,0 100107) *

This tells you the device numbers for the cd writer, in my case it's
1001,1,0 because I have other scsi drive on the machine. It'll be
different for you.

Using that gem of info try starting cdrecord in dummy mode thus:-

cdrecord dev=1001,1,0 -dummy -verbose -data
/mnt/data/Isos/PCLinuxOS/pclinuxos-2007.iso

On 12/11/07, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
    
Hi Christopher - the knoppix ISO I have downloaded for the linux
archive, exceeds the 4BG size that k3b will burn to a disk, though small
enough that it could fit on a DVD (no doubt there is some issue I know
nothing about regarding the size of files that can be burnt).

The question is, do you particularly want to get this as an ISO?  If so,
is the USB2 port installed yet?   Or is in the form of a bootable DVD OK?

Or, in the absence of a USB2 port, perhaps there is some clever trick
that will let me burn this ISO to DVD via that magical command line? If
so, what might that magic be?

Cheers,
Roger

      
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Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell