CD Burning

[expaul]

I'm trying to burn a CD from an .iso using gcombust. It goes through the motions of burning a cd, tells me that the operation was successful, but the cd is worthless...can't even get a directory. I've tried 3 times using different write speeds, each time the same thing.

Mandrake 9.0
Yamaha CRW 6416S
gcombust
good media
the .iso is Redhat 7.3 install disk1

I wondering if I should be using different burning software, or if my hardware is not fully suported.

[gkedrovs]

I use XcdRoast for burning data cds.

I use ERoaster for burning music/audio CDs from mp3 or Ogg files.

If your iso image burns fine on the CD but it's not readable afterwards, make sure you are "fixating" the CD. I've had the same problem (in those 2 GUI burner programos above) when I didn't have the "fixate" option checked.

-Greg

[mangeli]

How are you trying to access the disc once its burned?

Have you tried booting from it?

[michaelk]

Is this your first time writing with gcombust? You did deselect the test button? Is gcombust displaying any errors?

[expaul]

Ok, thanks for the tips, guys. I think i've been successful in all my attempts to burn...it's just that my burner won't READ anything...on a whim i placed the freshly burned CD into my cd rom drive(not the burner) and could read everything just fine. Not perfect, but it'll pass. :rolleyes:

[expaul]

question for you, gkedrovs. Why use different software to burn different source media?

[sarah31]

i dunno myself when i used to use a gui i only used eroaster. it could handle everything i threw at it and was much easier to configure and use than most of the other gui apps i knew of. personally though i am a cdrecord at the cli fan now.

[expaul]

I just tried eroaster and i like it much better. just a better interface and it seems more responsive.

but i can't make an .iso with it. ...i set all the settings, then click 'go' or whatever, and it just sits there idle...

[sarah31]

when i was using eroaster i used this (http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/projects/eroaster/screenshots/eroaster-iso.png) part of the application. All i did was enter the path to the iso and then hit burn cd. i didn't enter any data in the section below.

if you run eroaster from the commandline is there any error output when you try to burn the iso?

[expaul]

i have no trouble burning CD's from and .iso it's going the other direction i'm having trouble with. I now want to make an .iso of one of my mp3 cd's in order to put it up on my ftp server and let a friend come and download it. Yes, i know i could just put the individual mp3's on the ftp, but this is funner.

[sarah31]

well i suppose you could use mkisofs to package up an iso of the cd. I suggest you take a look at the mkisofs manpage for some of the options for doing this but eassentially it goes like this:

mkisofs -v -J -r -V "sarah's MP3's" -o /tmp/mp3_cd.iso /path/to/mp3s

-v is for verbose (ie it will tell your what is happening errors or not)
-J is for joilet support (ie so windows users can use the iso)
-r is for rock-ridge support (ie linux support)
-V is for the name of the volume (cd) (ie "sarah's MP3's")
-o is the output file (and the path to it) (ie /tmp/mp3_cd.iso)

and the last part speaks for itself.

[devurandomguy]

drop the GUI's

I have yet to find a GUI as capable as straight up cdrecord / cdrdao from the CLI.

[sarah31]

while i would tend to agree with you some people need time to get comfortable with moving to cdrecord/cdrdao/mkisofs and for some they just work faster in a GUI. There are lots of GUI apps that do a very very good job out there for exactly what that person needs.

It is all about needs and fulfilling them. In your case the CLI apps are the way to go. For others not.

[bwkaz]

A .iso file is nothing more than the image of the filesystem on the CD. Therefore, if you've already burned a CD, and want to recreate the ISO file, you can use dd:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/path/to/file.iso

Substitute the proper CD device if it isn't /dev/cdrom, of course.

[expaul]

Thanks for the command line help, sarah31.

I'd like to do more from the command line (is that what CLI is short for?) but the man/info pages for the cd burning applications are a bit much for me at this juncture.

We need to start a "Command Line Fu" forum here to pass along to each other our favorite ultra-powerful command line options for various apps.

CLI Fu!! Hiihgeeeeeeeee YA!