On Saturday 17 August 2002 11:39 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > Can someone explain in simple terms how to burn an .iso image to a CD and > get readable files? I have tried every burner front end available and all > I get is a text copy of the .iso image. No hair left to tear out. Help is > much appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This may not be the simplest method Dennis, but it's what I use and it works. I don't make coasters often. One out of the last 3 boxes of CD-Rs anyway. The power died for about 30 seconds during that one so I can't blame cdrecord for that.
I''ve only managed to ever burn one disk using the front-ends available, and that was back during the 7.2 Freq period. I found the method I use now on the list, and haven't even tried the XCDRoast, etc., methods. Maybe I'm just becoming a command line junkie? Insert blank media. You'd be surprised how often I've woopsed this part temporarily. :-) We all have our D'UH! moments. I start from File Manager Super User Mode. It ain't necessarily what you need to do but I can never remember if I've added my userid to the cdrom/cdrecord groups. Click the "Tools" button up top, click Open Terminal. Type (you're in su mode already, remember?) the following command, altering as needed to fit the system you're on. For example, this is what I used to burn beta2 of Mandrake 9.0, just change the CD number and other relevant information for what you're burning and for subsequent disks. cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -eject /store/Downloads/MandrakeLinux-9.0beta2-CD1.i586.iso The directory I save downloaded ISOs to is on a separate partition on a separate hard drive called /store; and one of the directories is (surprise <grin>) Downloads. The rest is just the name of the ISO as it appears in the directory in question. After "-eject" is a single space but word wrap can be a PITA. You should've already done the scanbus thing (so you'll know what the drive is recognized as, mine is dev=0,0,0) and you're away. My CD-RW is only an old Mitsumi 4x4x24 so the speed is maxed out here. I would _strongly recommend_ not burning version ISOs at anything greater than 4 speed anyway, just to be sure you get a bootable/mountable copy but YMMV. Just for my own curiosity, did you do md5sum checking before starting? I always do and haven't had a bad disk since I started doing it. Here's a "tutorial" that I've found useful. I've sent the link to others that have also said it was helpful. It shows an example of checking the md5sum as well: http://www.cpqlinux.com/cdrw.html Good luck. I hope this helps. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Lieberman's Law: Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.
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