On Thursday 21 March 2002 08:47 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> Tom,
>
> How does this frontend compare to gcombust? Which do you like
> better, and why?
Eroaster's just plain simpler, without a bunch of configuration
and options I don't understand too well like gcombust ;) It is
reliable tho. When all else fails, gcombust will get it.
>
> I'm kind of curious as to wether you have a preference between
> mkisofs and mkhybrid also.
Actually I've never used mkhybrid. If I want to copy a CD, I 'dd'
the CDrom to the harddrive, and then use cdrecord to burn it from the
CL. Assuming I'm in my home directory....
'dd if=/dev/cdrom of=whateverIcallit.iso'
then 'biso whateverIcallit.iso'
(alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0' [in bashrc])
Takes a few minutes to write a CD to the HDD first, then burn a
copy from there, but my el cheapo cdrom reader will falter, rattle,
and skip, and often cause a buffer underun on my CD-RW if I try a
direct CD to CDr copy. For copying files to a CDr (data or audio), I
like to use a GUI. Half the time when I try it from the CL I screw
somethin up ;) Burnin CD's is strictly a KISS process for me ;)
>
> One more question; did you end up using devfs, or do you even have
> an IDE burner?
Burner's an IDE, I don't care for SCSI drives in a desktop PC.
I've turned off devfs a few times but only to test. I reckon devfs
is here to stay, so I try and make things work with it. .... or get
different things ;)
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