really dumb iso question

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Susan Macchia wrote:
>
>
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote: On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Susan Macchia wrote:
>> Burning at a speed below the drive's rating is usually sound advice.
>> Also, flashing a firmware upgrade can help; it certainly helped my
>> stable of Plextors which reliably burn at max speed, given decent
>> quality media.
>>
>> On my systems (Libranet Debian) /dev/cdrom is a symlink.
>> On mine too :)
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 9 Dec 19 18:27 /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/scd0
>>
>> Burned at a low speed (<8) and no cigar.  I am at a loss as how to get a
>> set of FC6 CDs to install from ....
>>
>> Also tried:
>> % drecord -v dev=/dev/scd0 speed=8 -eject ~/Downloads/Fedora/FC-6-i386-disc1.iso
>> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jrg Schilling
>> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
>> scsidev: '/dev/scd0'
>> devname: '/dev/scd0'
>> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
>> Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
>> cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/scd0'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
>> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
>> cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
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> The command that you used above will not work.  For starters, unless
> you're using a SCSI CD burner, your CD burning device is not /dev/scd0.
> Some truly ancient distos (like Caldera, or Debian stable) treated all CD
> burners as SCSI devices, but FC1 was most definitely not one of them.  All
> that you should need to run to burn an ISO with cdrecord is:
> cdrecord -v ~/Downloads/Fedora/FC-6-i386-disc1.iso
>
> However, before creating any more coasters, have you verified that your
> ISOs are even valid?  This entire problem could be due to bad ISO images.
> The best place to start would be checking their md5sums.
>
>>
>> Given that I am on FC1 (old), that could be the reason for the rejection...
>
> I really doubt it.
>
>>
>> Has anyone on this list burned a set of FC6 CDs with success?
>
> Yes, several times, and never had a single problem.
> Well thats a relief :)
>
> And you did nothing special?  Besides burn the ISO at a low speed?

I didn't even burn it at low speed, unless 24x is considered low.

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