[NTLUG:Discuss] Burning Live CD

[Wayne Dahl]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Allen Meyers wrote:
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>> I presently run ubuntu with a kubutu desktop if that is relevant and I am looking to install package(s) that will allow me to burn live CD's. This will be a first for me and I have explored synaptic manager and see several that looks like what I need. Someone please direct me to the most user friendly and thanks.
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>> Allen Meyers  chef11994 at sbcglobal.net
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> For kubuntu you're looking at K3B as the most likely option.  The splash
> screen may be cutesy (unless the kubuntu producers replaced it like
> Novell wisely did with SuSE) but the program is good.  You can
> right-click in Konqueror, take Actions followed by "Create Data [DVD |
> CD] with K3B" but, as the option implies, all it does is launch K3B.
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For a little more, once you have K3b started, in the top pane on the 
right, navigate to wherever downloaded the .iso file to, then drag it 
into the open pane on the bottom right.  You will immediately be 
presented with a dialog box to make a bootable image from file, select 
yes and you're off an running.  It wasn't that easy (at least it didn't 
work that way for me) until the last couple of updates to K3b.  Works 
like a charm now.  I LOVE K3b...it's really easy to make playable CD's 
of your MP3/Ogg music collection from Amarok (if you're using KDE, you 
ARE using Amarok for your music player, aren't you ;)) by right clicking 
on the album name and selecting the burn to disc option, and you will be 
presented with a dialog box asking if you want to make it an audio CD 
(for playing in your car or boombox) or a data CD (for playing on your 
computer or MP3 player) and it will also bring up K3b.  Works wonders.

Enjoy!


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Wayne Dahl
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