On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 10:09:36 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 June 2002 08:10 am, darklord wrote: > > On Friday 07 June 2002 07:53 pm, you wrote: > > > I ust'a think the same, but lately burnin from the CL is > > > easier, quicker, and safer than any GUI. I recently thought > > > Gcombust to be the most reliable, it's since proved me wrong :( > > > Then I discovered how quick and simple it was to burn from the > > > CL. > > > > Its been so odd about GUI frontends for burning here. Under 8.0, I > > used Koncd which worked great. Then, under 8.1, Koncd was broke so > > I used X-CD-Roast which worked great. Now under 8.2, X-CD-Roast > > won't see any CD in my DVD drive (reader) and I've been using > > Gcombust which (so far) has worked fine. What problems did you have > > with it Tom? > > When I'd try to load up a dir, Gcombust (and eroaster too IIRC) > would skip one or two files sayin they didn't exist. 'Course they > did and I could burn a CD of all the files usin the CL. Any of the > various GUI's froze up at one time or another, usually while > selecting files, or making the image to burn. I use to like Koncd, > but haven't had any luck gettin it to run since Mdk7.2. Now I can > start to burn a CD in less time than most GUI's take to load just by > typing 'bdcd' <cd_image>, 'bacd' (in the dir where the wav's are), or > 'biso' <filename>.iso I just got tired of foolin with GUI front > ends. I suspect most all of 'em just haven't kept up with bleeding > edge distros like Mandrake. > > 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" I'm with you on this one, man. I spent so much time trying to configure the gui that I hated it. I didn't realize how easy it was to burn from the CL, now it's all I use. Haven't gotten around to making aliases yet, though. Good idear! I used this page to learn CL burning: http://www.linuxdocs.org/sln/cdcommands/ -- Todd Slater Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. (Bertrand Russell)
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