[NTLUG:Discuss] Burning a RH5.2 CD

Dale Massey dmassey at utdallas.edu
Tue Aug 31 14:57:06 CDT 1999


"Carter B. Bennett" wrote:
> 
> At 11:49 AM 08/31/1999 -0500, you wrote:
> >"Carter B. Bennett" wrote:
> >
> >> I have a HP 7200 external CDRW running on my printer port. Now my question
> >> is two part,
> >>
> >> 1.) Can the RH5.2 CD be copied in the Windows 95 OS where I know it has
> >> worked before.
> >
> >Yes... Though CD copying in Windows is really unreliable for me (crashes a
> >LOT).
> 
> What do you use in windows to copy a Linux CD? When I use CD Copy it runs
> for about 20 to 30 seconds and then ejects the CD. Do you use something else?
> 
> >
> >> 2.) What do I need in on my RH6.0 box to use the HP 7200 to burn CD's?
> >
> >cdrecord is my personal favorite. If you can make x-cd-roast work it's got a
> >nice interface. The main trick is getting the kernel configured for the
> >burner.
> 
> Where do I find cdrecord? And what is the best way to configure the kernel
> to see an external CDRW HP said it can't be done.
> 
> >
> >-Reeves
> >
> >--
The first thing I would tell you to do is check out the
CD-Writing-HOWTO.

http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO

It would have answered all your questions to date.

Also you can get cdrecord and mkisofs ( which allows your to make
images) from
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/contrib/libc5/i386/

These are in rpm format. If you want them in tar.gz format check
freshmeat for them.

cdrecord does support burning from parallel port as well.

Below are the options you need to compile in the kernel to have it pick
up your burner (these are taken right from the CD-Writing-HOWTO):

       Sect.  Description                 Module   SCSI  IDE   PP
       ------------------------------------------------------------
       BLOCK  Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL...                     Y
       BLOCK  IDE/ATAPI CDROM             ide-cd          M
       BLOCK  SCSI hostadaptor emulation  ide-scsi        M
       BLOCK  Loopback device             loop       M    M     M

       PARIDE Parallel port IDE device    paride               Y/M
       PARIDE Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs                       M
       PARIDE Parallel port generic ATAPI                       M
       PARIDE (select a low-level driver)                       Y

       SCSI   SCSI support                scsi_mod  Y/M  Y/M
       SCSI   SCSI CD-ROM support         sr_mod    Y/M  Y/M
       SCSI     Enable vendor-specific               Y    Y
       SCSI   SCSI generic support        sg        Y/M  Y/M
       SCSI   (select a low-level driver)            Y

       FS     ISO 9660 CDROM filesystem   iso9660    Y    Y     Y
       FS     Microsoft Joliet cdrom...   joliet     M    M     M


The HOWTO also has the basic commands you need to start burning cdroms.


Hope this helps.

Dale Massey

PS. If you have a problem getting to the HOWTO let me know and I'll
e-mail it to you.




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