cd-burning

[whiteghost]

How do i make a image with cdrecord on my mandrake 7.2?


I have a dell inspiron 3800 laptop.

[bdl]

What type of image do you want to make?

Normally, you'd use a combination of mkisofs and cdrecord to create and burn an image. Depending on if you wish to burn audio/data or create a bootable iso image, you'd feed different commands to the apps in question. There are, of course, a handful of different X applications that can help you create and burn CD's, using mkisofs, cdrecord, cdparanoia, etc as a backend. Please give a few more details.

[whiteghost]

wish to burn audio/data or create a bootable

I wish to burn a Data or create a bootable image with cdrecord, how would i do that?


I want to burn something from the net.

[pbharris]

hello,
you can use xcdroast to do everything you mentioned, you could use cdrecord, just typing it at the command line will give you all the options.

[bdl]

The following assumes you have read, understood and implemented the CD-Writing HOWTO (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html) to set your system up for writing cds.

Let's say you d/l something or want to archive a directory onto cd. Head over to the directory it's in and

linuxprompt# mkisofs -r -J -o /tmp/newcd.iso .

The '.' at the end signifies you are using the cwd as the input source. This command will create an iso image named 'newcd.iso' under your /tmp directory. The '-r' flag denotes a usable rockridge extension and the '-J' flag allows compatility with Windows Joliet namespace in case you need to read it from a win system at some point. Very handy option. The '-o' flag specifies the output filename. You can then burn the iso image with

linuxprompt# cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,1,0 /tmp/newcd.iso


...where you can change your 'speed' parm to reflect you cdwriter's speed capability, and the 'dev' option according to your system. Do a 'cdrecord -scanbus' to get a list of appropriate scsi devices.

A way to implement data writing on-the-fly is to scrunch those two commands together in such a way that the mkisofs output becomes the cdrecord input. This should work fairly well on a non-stressed modern system:

linuxprompt# mkisofs -r -J . | cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,1,0 -

These two basic commands should at least help you experiment some with mkisofs and cdrecord. Do a 'man cdrecord' and 'man mkisofs' for more details.

BTW, I highly recommend CDRToaster (http://cdrtoaster.sourceforge.net/) as an X based frontend, it's very lightweight and always works.

[whiteghost]

I did cdrecord -scanbus and i got this


cdrecord: no such file or directory, cannot open scsci driver.


What does that mean on a laptop?

[bdl]

Originally posted by whiteghost:
<STRONG>I did cdrecord -scanbus and i got this


cdrecord: no such file or directory, cannot open scsci driver.


What does that mean on a laptop?</STRONG>

Well, what it means is you haven't set up your machine to recognize the cdburner. Having said that, it may complicate things that you are actually running a laptop; what type of cdwriter is attached to your system? Or is it internal? Please provide a few more details, and I may be able to point you in the right direction.

A good link for linux on laptops is linux-laptop.net (http://www.linux-laptop.net). They may have a HOWTO on doing exactly what you want to do.

[whiteghost]

my cd burner is


Dell portables cd-R/RW Module


my laptop a dell inspiron 3800