[juneau-lug] Re: burning isos
- From: Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:50:46 -0900
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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