Burning an ISO image is blazingly simple from the command line, as cdrecord defaults to assuming that you're burning an ISO. That said, all you should need to type (assuming that your device specs are already in /etc/cdrecord.conf) is: cdrecord <ISO image file name>
You could add a -v for some verbosity, so you can see the burn's progress. Also adding speed=#, where # is the burn speed will let you specify something other than the default (which i believe is 4). Other than that, you should be all set. FWIW, i tried to use xcdroast quite a while ago, and spent the good part of an hour trying to make heads or tales of its ass-backwards interface. I finally gave up, and got gcombust which i find to be many orders of magnitude easier to use, and (from what i've heard) just as full featured as xcdroast. I usually just burn ISOs from the command line though. It can't get any easier than it already is. --- dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is really embarrassing. > > i've been burning cds right and left for awhile now, no problem other > than the generally counterintuitive controls on xcdroast and the much > worse koncd. > > this evening i realized that i've never burned an iso image and, a > couple of wasted cds later, that i do not know how to. > > the goal is to make one of the nice 16-mb bootable gentoo install cds. > > there is on the planet a distribution that doesn't recklessly piss > away system resources, and gentoo seems the likeliest. > > problem is, xcdroast burns a nice cd with a copy of the iso file on > it, rather than using the iso file to create a nice bootable cd that > does as it's supposed to do. > > it clearly can be done; just as clearly, i have no idea how to do it. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
