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cinan

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Registered: 2008-07-04

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Question about CD burning

Hi,
Is it true I must make an ISO from files on HDD and then I can burn the ISO to CD? I thought it's easier - just burn files to CD. I'm reading wiki and there's nothing about burning files to CD. I don't want to use GUI software for burning.
Thanks

kamituel

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Re: Question about CD burning

Generally speaking yes, you have to create iso image and then burn it. But to speed things up, you can use a pipe:
mkisofs [some opts] | cdrecord [some opts]
so you would burn image directly to the CD, without writing it to disk.

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cinan

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Re: Question about CD burning

Something like this?
mkisofs -V name_CD -J -r -o image.iso /directory/ | wodim -v dev=/dev/dvd image.iso

kamituel

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Re: Question about CD burning

Yes, presumably, although I'm not sure because I haven't used this in a long time (nowadays I'm not using my CD burner very often and I'm using GUI frontends).

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arch0r

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Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: Question about CD burning

# create .iso of directory
mkisofs -r -o image.iso /directory/

# make sure which device is your cd/dvd burner
wodim --devices

# burn iso using cdrecord
cdrecord -v -eject speed=10 dev=/dev/scd0 image.iso

-v = verbose
- eject = ejects disc after writing
speed = defines the writing speed
dev = cd/dvd burner device (wodim --devices)

Last edited by arch0r (2008-10-04 10:26:59)

dsr

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Registered: 2008-05-31

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Re: Question about CD burning

I haven't burned CDs recently, but I think the pipe would be something like

genisoimage -V CD_NAME -J -r DIR | wodim -v dev=/dev/sr0 -

You would need to omit '-o IMAGE' from genisoimage if you want it to output to stdout, and you would replace 'IMAGE' with '-' in wodim to read from stdin.

cinan

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Re: Question about CD burning

Thanks! That's what I need.

dsr

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Re: Question about CD burning

No problem. mkisofs is just a symlink to genisoimage, by the way.