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Date:	Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:20:03 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Please Pass the Dynamite - I Want to get CDRecord Working

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In <200408141407.3340915.8@scoug.com>, on 08/14/04
at 02:07 PM, "Don{ald} O. Woodall" said:

>> cdrecord -vv sample.iso

>>-vv means really verbose.

>>If you get a good burn, we are ready to move on to building ISOs.

> However, a couple of pieces of info seem to be missing:

> Source M:

> Destination R:

> Right now I do not believe my source to be an ISO file.

> My guess would be: cdrecord -vv M: R:

Nothing is missing. You need to find a way to stop thinking of burning
CDs in terms of how you read and write files to a disk. It just does not
apply. As I like to say, if you try to use a hammer to install a screw
what usually happens is the screw falls out sooner rather than later.

When you burn a CD, cdrecord takes the content of of the file you name,
which must contain an ISO image, and writes it to the CD using commands
understood by the CD writer.

The reason you needed to install aspirout is so that cdrecord has a way to
send the commands and data to the CD writer.

So, back to what I said several messages ago, you need an ISO to burn onto
the CD.

You have lots of choices. A simple one is the standalone memtest86:

http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.1a.iso.zip

Another is Jan dfsee ISO:

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee6xx_iso.zip

To burn a bootable cdrom from the memtest iso, the command is:

cdrecord -vv memtest.iso

For dfsee the command will be the same except for the ISO file name.

Once you can burn a CD from an existing ISO, we can start dicussing how
you can build your own ISOs.

HTH,

Steven

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