Burning a data CD (BRAVO)

[JJ Neff]

I just had to stop reading and say well done.  This is a fabulous answer to
what  could have been handled with "Use  tool XYZ"

This stand alone as a how-to all by itself.  Thanks for the time patience, and
thought that went into this.  I now have a goal to aspire to when I try to
answer someone's question.  I'm not being sarcastic or anything this is a
fabulous answer!

JJN
--- Dave Andruczyk <djandruczyk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> mkisofs -J -o cdimage.iso ~/Documents
> 
>  The above makes an ISO image of the ~/ (home dir) Documents folder.  the
> contents of the Documents folder will show up on the root directory of the
> cdrom..  The "-J" argument makes the cd image in joliet format which
> preserves
> long filenames for windoze...
> 
> Before you burn it should mount the image you created and make sure it looks
> the way you want.  To do so, run "mount cdimage.iso /mnt/loop -oloop" (you
> should be root to do this..)  Make sure /mnt/loop exists (you could mount it
> anywhere,  but having /mnt/loop around is handy just for this purpose.)
> Everything under /mnt/loop will look exactly how the CD will after you burn
> it
> to a physical disc below.    After you're done checking the mounted image, cd
> out of the folder (/mnt/loop) to someplace else (home dir is a smart choice),
> make sure you unmount /mnt/loop (umount/mnt/loop) and then follow up with the
> burn command below...
> 
> example:
> cdrecord -v -speed=(your CD burn speed), -data -dev=x,y,z (see below),
> cdimage.iso
> 
> chaneg the speed line to use the speed at which you wantto write at,  I have
> a
> 12x burner, so I use 12 here...  You can use lower numbers if you want. (like
> if you have media that isn't rated for the speed of your drive (4x rated
> media
> might wobble if you try to spin it at 12x and cause a coaster...)
> 
> x,y,z are the SCSI port, ID, and LUN (logical unit number, usually 0 in 99%
> of
> most peoples systems)
> 
> To find out what your burner is at, run "cdrecord -scanbus" the output will
> look similar to below:
> 
> 
> dave at shrapnel dave $ cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 2.01a14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling
> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
> scsibus0:
>         0,0,0     0) 'FUJITSU ' 'MAG3182L SUN18G ' '1111' Disk
>         0,1,0     1) *
>         0,2,0     2) 'FUJITSU ' 'MAG3182L SUN18G ' '1111' Disk
>         0,3,0     3) *
>         0,4,0     4) 'FUJITSU ' 'MAG3182L SUN18G ' '1111' Disk
>         0,5,0     5) *
>         0,6,0     6) *
>         0,7,0     7) *
> scsibus1:
>         1,0,0   100) *
>         1,1,0   101) *
>         1,2,0   102) *
>         1,3,0   103) *
>         1,4,0   104) 'GENERIC ' 'CRD-BP3         ' '1.03' Removable CD-ROM
>         1,5,0   105) 'CREATIVE' 'DVD-RAM RAM1216S' '1311' Removable CD-ROM
>         1,6,0   106) *
>         1,7,0   107) *
> 
> 
> My burner's "dev=" line would use 1 for "x", 4 for "y" and 0 for "z",  so for
> my system my command to burn the cd would be 
> 
> cdrecord -v -speed=12 -data -dev=1,4,0 cdimage.iso
> 
> If you have a drive that supports "BurnProof" or "BurnFree",  add
> "-driveropts=burnproof" after the "-data" part, if not don't add that..
> 
> 
> Your ID of your drive is probably different, adjust the above command to
> taste.
> 
> It sounds like a lot as once,  but once you've done it a couple times, it
> boils
> down to two commands and is pretty easy from the command line. (I prefer this
> way over a gui, unless I'm burning an audio CD....)
> 
> 
> 
> -

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