really dumb iso question

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Susan Macchia wrote:
> Susan Macchia <susan at smacchia.net> wrote: Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote: On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Susan Macchia wrote:
> 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?
> Ok tried the lowest speed and no luck...
>
> When I put the CD into the drive and look at it it has a .iso file (not 
> the contents of the iso file as I would expect).  I used gcombust, data 
> tab - ISO file selection....

That's wrong.  You're not burning a data file, you're burning an ISO. 
gcombust is doing the right thing, but you're telling it to do the wrong 
thing.  Did you use the cdrecord command that I provided?

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