[juneau-lug] Re: burning isos

I'm sure many folks have burning questions (OK, bad pun.  So sue me!) ;-)
I've never tried it either, since none of my Linux boxes have a CD-R.  The
bane of hand-me-downs.

Maybe a LUG on burning CDs, ISOs etc. would be a good topic?  Any
volunteers?  

...Kevin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Zuelow [mailto:jamesz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:42 AM
>To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: burning isos
>
>
>
>I use X-Cdroast when I use a GUI.  It is very well behaved & stable.
>
>However I also do a lot of burning with scripts (backups, 
>etc.) so I use
>mkisofs & cdrecord on the command line a lot.  There are a few other
>reasons to get familiar with mkisofs, mkhybrid, and cdrecord command
>line tools:
>1) Most (all?) of the GUI tools depend on them.  They're just pretty
>front ends.
>2) If you ever want to burn bootable Mac CDs, or put together bootable
>Sparc/Alpha/IBM PowerPC CDs, it is often easier on the command line to
>build the iso.
>3) At home I have a Yamaha F1 burner, and in order to use the 'disk
>tatoo' labeling system I have to use a cdrecord version that isn't yet
>fully supported by X-Cdroast.
>
>The command line stuff isn't that hard to do as long as you're familiar
>with the switches.  Printing out the man pages will get you everything
>you need to know.  The man pages are very good and even have examples.
>If you install X-Cdroast you'll be up and running in minutes.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> [mailto:juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sean Hegar
>> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:29 AM
>> To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [juneau-lug] burning isos
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> hello all
>> i haven't tried to do any cd burning i linux yet, wierd i 
>> know.  so my 
>> question is what cd burning programs does everyone else use.  im 
>> curretntly running slackware 9.0.
>> any suggestions would be apreciated.
>> sean
>> 
>> 
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