trying to burn an .iso
 

hi, I downloaded VoltaLinux.iso and I want to know the necessary commands to find out what kind of hardware I specificially have and how I can execute the mkisofs and otherwise make this a bootable cd? I am using Slackware 10.1

You can use to find out which device you burner is (i.e. something like 0,1,0). Then run:
to burn the iso. You must replace 8 with you burner speed and 0,1,0 with your actual device numbers.

you may need to use scsi emulation if you use an IDE cd writer and your using the 2.4.x kernel

you already have a iso image so you do not need to make use of mkisofs

If you are using the 2.6 kernel do,
Replace "hdc" with your own cd writing device. You don't need scsi emulation if using the 2.6 kernel.

A couple of useful options you might add are -eject -sao driveropts=burnfree. Eject will eject the CD when done, SAO closes the session which sometimes helps other (older?) drives to read the CD and Burnfree works with drives that support Buffer Underrun Free technology. So your command might look like this:

Dennisk

#umount /mnt/cdrom
#cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jorg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

I'm using Slackware 10.1 with kernel 2.4.29

add a line to /etc/lilo.conf like this :

-------------
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = ....
root = ....
label = ....
append="hd<yourdrive>=scsi" <---add this line
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends
-------------

hd<yourdrive> should be hdb or whatever is your cd drive.
then run " lilo" and reboot...

egag

append=hd /dev/hdb=scsi << thats how I do it?

How can I find out where specifically my cd/dvd drive is? I mean as far as /dev/whatever

The correct syntax is:
where hdX is your CD writer. To find out what X is, run;