Re: How Do I Burn CDs?

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> cdbakeoven is quite friendly
>
> Todd
>
> On March 3, 2003 12:17 pm, Robert Tilley wrote:
> > As heretical as this may sound, I've actually been contemplating moving
> > back to a Windows XP OS simply for the ease of CD burning.  I have no cd
> > burning program on my Debian unstable box, having tried all available
> > (namely, xcdroast, which is horribly unusable).
> >
> > Can anyone suggest any alternatives before I resume kneeling at the altar
> > of Bill?

Why not use cdrecord? It's not hard.

Make a cdimage from a folder:

mkisofs -r -J -o myfolder.iso myfolder

Get your dev numbers:

cdrecord -scanbus

For me, this gives me 0,0,0. Here's the output:

scsibus0:
        0,0,0     0) 'ATAPI   ' 'CD-R/RW 20X10   ' 'H.KF' Removable CD-ROM
        0,1,0     1) *
        0,2,0     2) *
        0,3,0     3) *
        0,4,0     4) *
        0,5,0     5) *
        0,6,0     6) *
        0,7,0     7)

Now do the burn:

cdrecord -dev=0,0,0 -data myfolder.iso

You can make a wrapper script that knows your numbers and burns it all in
one easy go.

Fred