Re: [SLUG] CD-RW Drives and LINUX

From: David R. Meyer (david@crbtechnologies.com)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 22:52:51 EDT


Agreed...but most winblows users are not willing to do that.

Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "R P Herrold" <herrold@owlriver.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] CD-RW Drives and LINUX

> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, David R. Meyer wrote:
>
> > Let me ask this...is there specific software that will allow the
end-user to
> > make CD's as easily as you can on , well, you know, that other
operating
> > system.
>
> How simple does it need to be? All the GUI's allow for
> argement passing to a executable.
>
> ... I type an alias:
>
> cdburn /var/ftp/pub/mirror/OBSD-30/cd-1.img
>
> and get an Open BSD copy --- not that cdburn is much:
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> #
> #
> MYNAME=`basename $0`
> [ "x$1" = "x" ] && {
> echo "Usage: $MYNAME (isoname)" 1>&2
> exit 1
> }
> [ ! -s $1 ] && {
> echo "Error: $MYNAME: (isoname) is missing or null" 1>&2
> exit 1
> }
> /usr/bin/cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -speed=4 -eject $1
> #
>
>



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