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

[terry]

Val Harris wrote:

>Wayne Dahl wrote:
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>>Ok...let me ask this again...because I don't think I got the answer I
>>was looking for...
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>>>>#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?  
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>>Did the md5sum check...that worked great...thanks Rick.
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>>>I "always" use cdrecord to convert my iso images to CD plastic.
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>>>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
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>>>"cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=<dev-id> <iso-image_filename>" will burn the CD.
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>>Ok...here's where you're losing me guys.  When you record the iso image
>>using the above info, doesn't cdrecord (or any other CD burner software)
>>just burn one big file with a .iso extension?  I tried this with Gnome
>>toaster, got one file with the filename psyche-i386-disc1.iso...nothing
>>you could see any files with.  Does cdrecord take that command and pull
>>everything out of the .iso file?
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>. . . snip . . .
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>I think where you went wrong is on the cdrecored command line.  I've
>found that if I don't use the "-data" option to cdrecord I end up with
>a single large file named iso-image_filename.iso on the CD.  If I
>include the "-data" option, I get a file tree on the CD.  More simply,
>I use the following command to burn a cd:
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>  cdrecord -v -data speed=8 dev=<dev-id> <iso-image_filename>
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>The cdrecord man page says that -data is the default, but that doesn't
>seem to be the case with cdrecord-1.10-14 on RedHat 8.0.
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>Val
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I use xcdroast.