Burning a CD

mkisofs -J -hide-joliet-trans-tbl -r -o cdimage.iso cddata/
cdrecord -v -dummy cdimage.iso
cdrecord -v cdimage.iso

Copying a CD

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdimage.iso ibs=10000

Burning ext2fs to CD

mkdir /root/cdburn
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/cdburn/archive-CD.iso bs=2048 count=260000
mke2fs -b 2048 /root/cdburn/archive-CD.iso
mkdir /root/mount
mount /root/cdburn/archive-CD.iso /root/mount/ -t ext2 -o loop
cp /opt/stuff-to-back-up/* /root/mount/
umount /root/archive-CD.iso
cdrecord -v archive-CD.iso

mount /dev/cdrom -t ext2 /mnt/cdrom/
ls -l /mnt/cdrom/

Burning a multisession CD

The first session

$ mkisofs -r -J -hide-joliet-trans-tbl -o <name>.iso <cdrootdir><br>

To test the image

$ mount -t iso9660 -loop <name>.iso /tmp/mnt

Check out what you have under /tmp/mnt.

$ umount /tmp/mnt

To test the cdrecord settings

$ cdrecord -v -multi -data -dummy <name>.iso

To write

$ cdrecord -v -multi -data <name>.iso

The second session

$ cdrecord -msinfo <last_sess_start>,<next_sess_start>

$ mkisofs -M 0,0,0 -C <last_sess_start>,<next_sess_start> -r -J -hide-joliet-trans-tbl -o <name2>.iso <cdrootdir2>

$ cdrecord -v -multi -data <namex>.iso

Nasty trap: The new directories/new track are not seen until the CD-ROM has been ejected and remounted.

The last session

$ cdrecord -msinfo <last_sess_start>,<next_sess_start>

$ mkisofs -M /dev/cdrom -C <last_sess_start>,<next_sess_start> -r -J -hide-joliet-trans-tbl -o <namex>.iso <cdrootdirx>

$ cdrecord -v <namex>.iso

Note: Linux treats the CD writer as a SCSI device, so pass a "hdX=ide-scsi" to the kernel line in your grub.conf, where hdX is your ide CD writer. (The upcoming 2.6 kernels do not need this; it can send the ATAPI commands to the CD writer via the usual /dev/hdX IDE interface; no need for ide-scsi.)

Links...

• http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

• http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm

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