[NTLUG:Discuss] 2 Questions about creating CD's from iso images.

[Rick Cook]

On Wednesday 01 January 2003 22:57 pm, Wayne Dahl wrote:
> Hi again.
>
> I have two questions about making usable CD's of iso images I've
> downloaded off the Internet.
>
> #1...I've downloaded 5 iso images of RH 8.0, plus a documentation iso
> (I think this is the set you would get if you bought it from RH).  I
> have the iso images in my /home/Wayne/RedHat8.0 directory.  The
> filenames all begin with psyche-i386-disc and are labeled disc1.iso
> thru disc5.iso. The documentation I've seen doesn't seem to work.  The
> first question is, how do I convert those iso images into what I'm
> looking for...usable CD's for upgrade?  I have downloaded the MD5SUM
> files...how do I use them to verify the ISO images?

md5sum -c <md5sum_file>

>
> #2...I've attempted to use X-CDRoast from my user account- Wayne...and
> the drive does a lot of accessing after inputting the root password the
> system asks for after starting the program...but X-CDRoast never seems
> to start.  It starts just fine if I'm logged on as root, but not as a
> normal user.  From what I saw of it as root, I'd prefer to use it
> instead of Gnome Toaster.  What do I have to do to get it to work? 
> When I was logged on as root, I set up my normal username as one of the
> allowable users in X-CDRoast, so I'm not sure why it won't start, much
> less ask for the root password.
>

I "always" use cdrecord to convert my iso images to CD plastic.

You will need to install the ide-scsi kernel module and potential add an 
"hdc=ide-scsi" type boot option (most distributions do this for you if 
they detect an IDE CD-R/RW during installation).

"cdrecord -scanbus" will tell the "dev" information

"cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=<dev-id> <iso-image_filename>" will burn the CD.


> I know these are probably considered elementary questions, but the
> research I've done trying to get this to work doesn't seem to really
> tell me anything.
>
> Oh, the CD-RW I have is a Verbatim 321240AL IDE drive running under RH
> 7.3.
>
> Thanks,
>

Your welcome,

Rick