I have the following instructions from http://www.astaro.com/doc/burn-howto_en.html
The most efficient and easiest way is to type the following command: cdrecord -v dev=DEVICE fs=4096k -eject -pad -useinfo -dao -data Astaro_Security_Linux_ISO_IMAGE (or easier: cdrecord -v dev=DEVICE -data Astaro_Security_Linux_ISO_IMAGE) You get the correct substitute for DEVICE by typing cdrecord -scanbus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- also from http://cdimage.debian.org/faq.html -?- How do I burn a CD from Linux/UNIX? -!- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Man pages have only confused me: The device refers to scsibus/target/lun of the CD-Recorder. Communication on SunOS is done with the SCSI general driver scg. Other operating systems are using a library simulation of this driver. Possible syntax is: dev= scsibus,target,lun or dev= target,lun. In the latter case, the CD-Recorder has to be connected to the default SCSI bus of the machine. Scsibus, target and lun are integer numbers. Some operating systems or SCSI transport implemen- tations may require to specify a filename in addition. In this case the corect syntax for the device is: dev= devicename:scsibus,target, or dev= devicename:target,lun. If the name of the device node that has been specified on such a system referres to exactly one SCSI device, a short- hand in the form dev= devicename:@ or dev= devicename:@,lun may be used instead of dev= devicename:scsibus,target, To make cdrecord portable to all UNIX platforms, the syntax dev= devicename:scsibus,target, is preferred as is hides OS specific knowledge about device names from the user. A specific OS must not necessarily support a way to specify a real device file name nor a way to specify scsibus,target,lun. Scsibus 0 is the default SCSI bus on the machine. Watch the boot messages for more information or look into /var/adm/messages for more information about the SCSI confi- guration of your machine. If you have problems to figure out what values for scsibus,target,lun should be used, try the -scanbus option of cdrecord described below. If a file /etc/default/cdrecord exists, the parameter to the dev= option may also be a drive name label in said file (see FILES section) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Problem is cdrecord -scanbus gives me: Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) No such file or directory. Can not open SCSI driver. for possiable targets try "cdrecord -scanbus" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Burner is only cd in the box, hp 9150i (ide), was used to install potato, can read cd's just fine. I am still downloading the last iso I want to burn. I just want to have the info ready to try the burn when it's finished. TIA, Sam Morgan References used were: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/cdrecord-1.8.html http://www.astaro.com/doc/burn-howto_en.html http://cdimage.debian.org/faq.html
