Re: Creating & Copying Data CDs.

["john doe" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

i use k3b for all my linux burning needs, works great thusfar (even for disk 
to disk copying)

Casey


>From: hcrouch@mchsi.com
>I have been studying two tutorials that I found on the internet.
>
>YoLinux says that there are two methods which I can use to make iso images 
>of
>data CDs.
>
>   cat /dev/cdrom > /home/user/isoname.iso
>   mkisofs /dev/cdrom -r -o /home/user/isoname.iso.
>
>Troubleshooters.com says that the only way I can be 100% sure that the iso 
>looks
>precisely like the CD is to do the following two-step process.
>
>   1. isoinfo /dev/cdrom -d -i
>
>which will report block size (bs) and volume size (count), then
>
>   2. dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/user/isoname.iso bs=nnnn count=nnnnnn
>
>YoLinux warns that any other procedure might produce an iso which generates 
>a
>md5sum different from the original CD.
>
>Truth or BS?
>
>YoLinux also warns that I should ALWAYS use the -pad switch when burning 
>data
>CDs. I read the description of the -pad switch in the cdrecord man page, 
>but I'm
>not geeky enough to understand what the writer was trying to tell me. :-(
>
>Again, truth or BS?
>
>The Troubleshooters tutorial is at 
>http://troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm
>
>The YoLinux tutorial is at
>http://www.yo-linux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html
>
>-Harold
>
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