[NTLUG:Discuss] Burning a RH5.2 CD

[Carter B. Bennett]

Thank you, your right everything is in there, sometimes I can't see the
trees for the forest.

Once again thanks for the help, this list is the best.


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>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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