Fastest way to burn iso image to a CD

linuxtreme3000 · 02-16-2004, 07:58 PM

I'm looking to find the fastest way to burn an ISO image to a CD. I've looked through the man pages for cdrecord, but it's all confusing to me. Is there one command I can execute to just burn the damn thing?

IBall · 02-16-2004, 08:14 PM

I am assuming you want to create a data CD:

Code:

mkisofs -r -o cd_image directory1 directory2 ...

Code:

cdrecord --scanbus

this gives the location of your CD Burner, mine is 0,0,0. Only needs to be run once to find where your cd burner is located
then:

Code:

cdrecord -v speed=32 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image

where speed=32 is the burning speed of your burner

You could try placing the commands into a shell script, and run it from a single program.

I hope this helps
from Ian

repeater75 · 02-16-2004, 08:43 PM

That definitely wins for fastest way to burn an image.

For a newbie friendly app with an interface similar in a lot of ways to Nero,
grab K3B. It is by far the most polished burning app I've used on linux.

I've been using version 0.11.1 for a few weeks now and you can burn an .iso image by going to tools -->CD-->Burn CD Image. It is as easy as pointing to the right .iso file and then telling the burner what speed to use.

www.k3b.org is the site.

linuxtreme3000 · 02-16-2004, 09:16 PM

Thank you.

linuxtreme3000 · 02-17-2004, 12:01 AM

Okey, one problem. When I issue a 'cdrecord --scanbus' command, I get this:

Code:

root@NICK:/# cdrecord --scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J�rg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
root@NICK:/#

I don't have an entry for my cd burner in my fstab file. In fact, I don't know what the device is even called. I have 2 CD drives, and the burner is the second one, plugged into 'slave'. Here is my fstab:

Code:

/dev/hdb1        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/hda2        /                reiserfs    defaults         1   1
/dev/hda1        /boot            ext2        defaults         1   2
/dev/hdb2        /home            reiserfs    defaults         1   2
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0

koen plessers · 02-17-2004, 01:20 PM

Hello

You might consider xcdroast, even if it only were for the faq
http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/faq-a15.html
which also explaines how to make a writer work.

Bye

Koen

MadCactus · 02-17-2004, 01:41 PM

I had a problem with using my DVD drive as the slave - wasn't recognised at all...

Seems ok now that its the master.

You might also want to try "modprobe ide-scsi" if ide-scsi support isn't built into the kernel and you are using an IDE DVD drive.

aigartua · 02-17-2004, 01:46 PM

if you are using kernel 2.6 and the cdrw is IDE you can try:

cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI:

linuxtreme3000 · 02-18-2004, 12:21 PM

Using a 2.4.22 kernel.

Code:

root@NICK:/# cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J�rg Schilling
scsidev: 'ATAPI'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha.
Warning: There may be fatal problems.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
        0,0,0     0) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-ROM DVD-117R' '1.04' Removable CD-ROM
        0,1,0     1) 'SONY    ' 'CD-RW  CRX175E  ' '1.1a' Removable CD-ROM
        0,2,0     2) *
        0,3,0     3) *
        0,4,0     4) *
        0,5,0     5) *
        0,6,0     6) *
        0,7,0     7) *
root@NICK:/# cd /home/mystic0/Dowloades
root@NICK:/home/mystic0/Downloads# mkisofs -r -o cd_image systemrescuecd-x86-0.2.10.iso
  9.85% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 18 10:13:57 2004
 19.72% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 18 10:13:57 2004
 29.56% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 18 10:14:00 2004
 39.43% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 18 10:13:59 2004
 49.26% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 18 10:13:59 2004
 59.13% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 18 10:13:58 2004
 68.96% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 18 10:13:58 2004
 78.83% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 18 10:13:58 2004
 88.67% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 18 10:13:59 2004
 98.54% done, estimate finish Wed Feb 18 10:13:59 2004
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 270
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 4284
50752 extents written (99 Mb)
root@NICK:/home/mystic0/Downloads# cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data cd_image Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,1,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
cdrecord: No such device. Cannot open '/dev/pg1'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

janmeel · 02-20-2004, 09:57 AM

I'm having exactly the same problem on my 2.4.22 machine.

bash-2.05b# cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a25 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: 'ATAPI'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha.
Warning: There may be fatal problems.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus0:
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
0,0,0 0) 'E-IDE ' 'CD-ROM 52X/AKH ' 'A62 ' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) 'PHILIPS ' 'CDD7052 ' 'B1.2' Removable CD-ROM
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
bash-2.05b# cdrecord -v -pad speed=4 dev=0,1,0 /home/jan/KNOPPIX_V3.3-2004-02-16-EN.iso
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a25 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,1,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg1'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

my cd-drive is mounted as

/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0

in /etc/fstab

btw "modprobe ide-scsi" does not change anything

thanks

Allen614 · 02-20-2004, 10:55 AM

Do you have "hdc=ide-scsi" in your lilo.conf? I believe the slave side of the second ide is gonna be "HDD" instead of "HDC".