Well, I learned something on this sunny day. This is fun! Thanks, Lazarus.

You are welcome

Wednesday, and here is what happened:

@yngwin: I printed the mkisofs and cdrecord man-pages in files (to use a faster printer at work), so my hunger for condensed information will be sated soon.

@Lazarus: Good news first -- I got the image burned and saw the contents of the CD-RW via ls -l. And now for the "but": Your script doesn't work. Well, I typed it in at the command line, but for my understanding that should be the same.

cdrecord said: "No tracks specified. Need at least one." while I thought that there is a default. After I found out how to get the necessary information (due to yngwins URL!) I used the obtained tsize=7232s -- to no avail.

I also played with the options -data, -nofix and -isosize.

In the end I had mkisofs write to the harddisk (mounted and controlled the resulting iso-file-system) and used cdrecord on it without the pipe (|) et voilà ... success.

I have no idea, why.

(Philosophical aside: I needed about 2 hours for the whole procedure. I think, Linux has still some way to go in way of customer friendliness -- even though it is a great system. And I still have a lot to learn.)

Bye.

I use that script all the time. You need to enter int into a file using an editor of your choice I use joe.
Then make if executable ie

chmod 777 cd_write
If you then just type cd_write it tells you what to do

You might have to change the line
cd_device="1,0,0"
to suit your setup. To find the correct entry run

cdrecord -scanbus

as root

Good luck

Here's my "I love linux" reply

Winbloze dorked up your disk, most of those 2 hours was spent repairing the dorking win did, then from there, k3b can be an easy to use gui to burn your data backup or whatever.

So, given an equal chance, I think (at least in the world of cdburning) linux does a better job (makes less coasters due to better use of all system resources overall).

Cool

Hi Lazarus,

I didn't doubt that you use your script, I just don't understand why your box is content without the tsize=XXXs-Option, or why I get the error-message "No tracks specified. Need at least one." while you stay unmolested .

And why does my pipe refuse to work (640 MB RAM and about 1 GB swap-file can't be too little). And yes, my CD-Device is 0,1,0, thats not the problem either.

Thanks for your patience, bye.

Hehe, well, I'll investigate the role of my C:\-Partition in yesterday's nightly activities.

On K3b I agree completely. See the aborted thread
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=53031
Maybe we will meet in the new one.

Do you have any ideas concerning the "hows" and "whys" of the differing behaviour of Lazarus' and my systems?

Bye.