Burning a CD using the drive Mepis is being run from

tetraxor · 07-01-2005, 07:36 AM

Is there a way to burn a CD (running K3b from the Mepis Live CD) when the only available CD drive is the burner?

Thanks

okmyx · 07-01-2005, 08:05 AM

Not quite sure if its the same in mepis but it might apply,

There is an option in Knoppix to install and run everything from ram (if you have enough) thus freeing up the cd drive for burning.

type 'knoppix toram' (without quotes) at the ISOLINUX bootprompt.

tetraxor · 07-01-2005, 08:37 AM

Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately there's only 256 MB of ram available. (I did try though, -- Knoppix says it needs at least enough ram to copy the entire CD).

Actually, this would be needed for a data rescue attempt from a heavily compromised Windows PC. Removing/adding drives is unfortunately not an option, and it seems impossible to burn a CD from within Windows. (or start anything other than cmd.exe, for that matter)

lefty.crupps · 07-02-2005, 02:49 AM

try Puppy Linux, it can load completely into RAM (I just read a My Workstation OS thing on it today!) I think DSL can do that too.

For any of the options, you might have to burn via the command line (not K3B as it might be too RAM-intensive)

aggrosk8rdude · 07-02-2005, 09:04 AM

I have done this using DSL. You need to use the cheatcode

DSL toram

along with any others you need for resolution/etc. If you then you can use cdrecord from the bash, or cdburnapp. If you can't get net in DSL, you can download it first then run DSl later.

tetraxor · 07-02-2005, 10:19 PM

Thanks for the great advice.
I tried Puppy Linux, and it worked like a charm. (It includes Gcombust for burning CDs.)