On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 08:27:42PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I do most of my burning with K3b (which I find easy and effective) > and a little with Xcdroast which I find often fails (I've noticed > others on the list complain of problems with this prgram). I'll > have to try getting to grips with cdrecord from the commandline. > > The real problem is that I cannot 'visualise' what has to be done > to make an .iso image bootable.
You don't "make an .iso image bootable". An ISO image is just that an "image" of a CD. Normally, it's either bootable or it isn't. Now, you can make a bootable CD ISO image. Which is effectively an ISO image of a bootable CD. Think of the ISO image file as everything necessary to recreate the CD. For more information on creating ISO images, take a look at the man pages for "dd" and "mkisofs". With cdrecord, creating a CD from an ISO image is normally as easy as: cdrecord dev=0,1,0 /path/to/image.iso You will most likely need to change the "dev=0,1,0" above. The proper value can normally be found by running: cdrecord --scanbus and then using the 3 numbers listed before your burner's entry in the output. These are the SCSI bus, SCSI ID, and SCSI Lun of the device (IIRC). -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
