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Chris Gehlker wrote:
> I have a little iBook with a read only DVD drive, a big old LaCie CD
> burner, a bunch of blank disks and a nice set of YDL install disks. I
> wouldn't mind showing up at the InstallFest and duping YDL for anyone
> who wants to try out a popular Mac distribution. But, here comes the
> embarrassing part, I have no clue how to do this under Linux. Under OSX
> I know how to set things up so the burner drive just streams out dups of
> what's in the reader drive. Under Linux I don't even know how to get the
> iBook to open the drive when it's empty.
>
> I have recently discovered that *Linux has no hdiutil*. I sure it has
> something else just as nice but I'm clueless and I may not catch a clue
> before the InstallFest.
>
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first off: man cdrecord ; man dd

You will have to find out where your burner is in terms of IDE (ie /dev/hdb)
and SCSI (/dev/scd0). Using the 'dmesg' command and looking at the output:

 # dmesg | less

should answer that. You can use cdrecord to find your burner on the SCSI
chain, (it should be there, whether it is an IDE or SCSI device in reality. If
it is a SCSI device, you should be passing an append line)
append="hdb=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf. Use hdb, hdc, scd0 or a symbolic link the
installer may have made pointing to one of these (ie /dev/cdrom -->/dev/hdb)
as is appropriate for your system.

Finding your cd-burner using cdrecord:

 # cdrecord --scanbus
Cdrecord 1.11a31 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
scsibus0:
        0,0,0     0) *
        0,1,0     1) *
        0,2,0     2) 'YAMAHA  ' 'CRW2100E        ' '1.0J' Removable CD-ROM
        0,3,0     3) *
        0,4,0     4) *
        0,5,0     5) *
        0,6,0     6) *
        0,7,0     7) *

This shows I have a Yamaha at device = 0,2,0

Ejecting the device is like this:

 $ eject /dev/hdb
 $ eject /dev/scd0

Rip a disk to an iso file using /dev/scd0 :

 $ dd if=/dev/scd0 of=filename.iso

Burn a disk from iso file:

 $ cdrecord speed=8 dev=0,2,0 filename.iso

Finally, I refer you to the HowTo document:

 http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

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KevinO

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