really dumb iso question

[susan at smacchia.net]

Net Llama! wrote:
>
>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
>>
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>> 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?

Not yet, but I will give that a try when I get home - thanks (I didn't get to read this email till I got to work this morning).

On the gcombust use - I am doing what I have always done: click the burn tab, select the iso choice, put in the filename, then press burn.  Fairly straightforward...

Thanks for all the advice and help so far,

Susan