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Date:	Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:22:24 PDT7
From:	"Don{ald} O. Woodall" <dlswoodall@sbcglobal.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 , on 08/14/2004
at 06:20 PM, "Steven Levine" said:

Steven

You probably know what happened that produced the incomplete message.

>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.

OK, that is good enough of an explanation for me to relax an be
satisfied that the magic will somehow work.

>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

Now that you have hammered on this point a second time,
I now understand why. The first time around it all seemed
very strange and totally out of context to me.

>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

Off to download and burn an ISO file

We can continue tomorrow.

Thanks

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