Using the CD Burner
Location
The CD R/W drive is installed in the machine uni,
located in Room 311, second machine on your right as
you walk in.
Scratch Directory
The directory /scratch is available as a staging area. It
can be used, e.g. to create the ISO file prior to burning on the CD.
Note that /scratch is intended only as temporary storage.
Files in /scratch may be deleted at any time, without prior notice.
CD Writing Software
There are a few different programs available for writing CDs. The
only one that I have used xcdroast, but there is also: gcombust, Gnome
Toaster and KreateCD. All of these are frontends to cdrecord.
xcdroast
The following recipe should get you started.
- Select Create CD
- Select Master Tracks
- Use the File/Directory view to
select files and directories to include.
- Select the Create session/image tab and click
on Calculate size, then Master to image file.
- Select Write Tracks and choose the Layout tracks tab.
- Select the track name on the right panel, click Add, then
click Accept track layout. Now click Write tracks.
- Select Delete Tracks to delete the image file you created.
cdrecord
This command can only be used as root. The rest of you should ignore this
section, and use one of the front-ends described above.
Use the cdrecord program, with a command line like this (as root):
nice --18 cdrecord -eject -v speed=2 dev=0,6,0 -data -pad binary-i386-1.iso.
Last modified: Sun Oct 6 15:45:27 EDT 2002