Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4547 mails)

[Rick Green <rtgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Marshall Heartley wrote:

> Did you burn the .iso to the disc or did you tell the programs to burn
> the contents of the iso to the disc.  Look at the CDs and see if you see
> either a .iso file or you see some files and directories.
  When I mount the CD, I see the same tree of files and directories that I
get when I mount the .iso on the loop device.

>
> >ANybody else encountered this, or can pass me a clue?
>
> For a clue, look above.  If you have just the .iso file on the cd, then
> you did the burn incorrectly.  You can try and burn it from the command
> line.  Like so cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=12 -eject -data <name of iso
> including the extension>.  Substitute for the correct device, speed and
> name of image file on your system.  I did burn a Live CD and it works
> very well for me here.  I can't wait to get 9.1!

Here's the command I used, and has worked for the Knoppix .iso's:

   cdrecord -dev 0,1,0 -v speed=8  LiveCD-9.1.iso

 (According to the manpage, -data is the default).

-- 
Rick Green

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