good program to burn ISO's in gnome?
About to put slackware back on this machine as i stuffed it the other week tryign to get nother distro on =)
I have 3 slack iso's on the machine and have gnomebaker to burn.... i did it yesterday and something went wrong though as when installing slackware it bugged out and crashed due to errors on the disc..

ALso, if i resize a ext3 partition in gparted/qtparted that already has linux on it.. will it be okay?
or ... what is the best way without hurting the current build. i dont have a spare partition to dump an image prior to resizing either..

thanks!

cdrecord...

cdrecord -v speed=12 dev=1,0,0 slackware-10.2-install.iso

edit the dev= and speed= to your specs.

Gnome baker is okay, just make sure to use a lower speed setting to avoid errors on the disk. I find that its autodetection features to be lacking. I much prefer K3B, which although is a KDE program runs just fine in gnome if the kde support libraries are installed.

Resizing partitions is dangerous no matter what you do. I'd make backups of all the data you absolutely MUST keep before doing anything. (usually a safe thing to do anyway.) Definitely make a backup of the partition table (I forget how to do this, but google will probably find a howto) before trying, that way if something goes wrong, you can restore that and probably recover some data.

Another post here on LQ pointed me to BashBurn http://bashburn.sourceforge.net, which is a commandline script that handles many "burning" chores nicely.

Dennisk

For commmad line I use cdrecord for gui I use Nero Linux.
I am using XFCE so K3B is not an option for me because I did not want to load all the required libs in order for it to work.

Nero Linux is free if you already own the Win verison or $20.00 if you don't.

If you want to read and burn as user you will have to edit a few files including /etc/fstab and /etc/sudoers with visudo.

I have my CD buring under the cdrom group and added my user to the cdrom group as well.

Work great and very solid.
I'm using Slackware 10.2 because I have FULL control over my linux setup. It's a very fast distro and one of the best with older hardware.

You got to love people who upgrade their win machines they just give away there old hardware systems for free. I get lots of P3's for nothing. Setup Slackware 10.2 and give away the systems to people you can't afford to buy new computers. I try to do at least 1 system a month in my spare time.

When buring ISO images I prefer cdrecord cause it quick and fast but when creating new CD's for backup or other I use Nero Linux.

yes i might ahve to try tar the partition and cut it to DVD or something as i have no partition or disk to dump an image..
we'll see =)

thanks for the info re: cdr burning to - problem resolved.

as a note you can right click on iso files and nautilus and you should get a "burn iso" link. Its built into nautilus.


Soule

hey cool! thanks for the info... i didnt even notice.
However mine is only 'burn to disc' and looks like it is just going to burn the ISO to disc as the file itself... although not 100%
thanks anyway =)