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June 29, 2004
Burning CDs on JDS
Sometimes the command line interface can save you from making a bunch of coasters. After screwing up my Red Hat system at home this morning, I found the .iso files for the CDs on the network somewhere, and went to burn them onto CD-Rs.
A Sun Support Forum entry, Re: How I can burning a CDRom?, explained how to do this using the Gnome GUI. One step threw me:
Click [Write files to CD]. A screen will pop up and ask where the file should be written to. Select the directory and fill in the name of the file which will be created. Press [OK].
I still cannot figure out what the name of the file is supposed to be. I somehow ended up burning a CD with one file, a .iso. That when you mount it contains a .iso, and so on, apparently ad infinitum. Had to download the entire 639 MB .iso again.
Do it with cdrecord. If you're not sure how, Google for instructions. Worked for me.
Posted by Mark at June 29, 2004 02:00 PM