Re: How Do I Burn CDs?
Sure, but he was looking for a program that wouldn't make him run back to
Windows. I think the nice gui of cdbakeoven would be more of what he's
looking for. Nothing against calling cdrecord directly, I just don't think
that's what he was looking for.
Todd
On March 3, 2003 01:34 pm, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > 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
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