How can I add or append additional files to a CD-R onto which I have already recorded or "burned" just a few files?
After reading volumes of messages on this list, plus the recommend HOWTO on this subject, I finally figured out how to burn a CD under Mandrake 8.1. It's regrettable that there seem to be so many extra hoops that Linux users have to jump through to get some of these very basic tasks to work. I still do not have either xcdroast or Gcombust working because they each require nuisance configuration steps. But I prefer command line operations, anyway . . . once I can finally get the correct syntax worked out. In this case, the most concise and helpful explanation came from Tom Brinkman, although even his required some interpretation and adjustment. Tom described his approach this way: 'bdcd' <cd_image> 'bacd' (in the dir where the wav's are) or 'biso' <filename>.iso alias bdcd="cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 -data" (need to make cd_image first, eg, 'mkisofs -r -o cd_image <dir>') alias biso="cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0" alias bacd="cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 -pad -audio *.wav" >From Tom's examples, I derived the following two key lines which I put in a shell script that I named "burncd" mkisofs -r -o cdimage /home/joe/data cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0 cdimage But I had to omit the word "eject" because I got this error message: cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for 'eject'. Can anyone explain why this error message and how to get "eject" to work? Also, would someone please explain why dev=0,0 works but dev=0,0,0 (which other examples use) does not work? In my shell script "burncd" I have actually built in some additional functions including variable input options and a log to automatically keep a record of all of the CD's I burn, etc. But it is really neat that those two simple lines are all that anyone really needs to burn a CD. Thanks, Tom.
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