really dumb iso question

[Collins Richey]

On 12/20/06, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 10:01 -0800, susan at smacchia.net wrote:
> > Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> >
> > >> 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?
> > >
> > >I know monolithic desktops are not popular here, and I am not sure
> > you
> > >need to run one for this, but k3b really makes CD/DVD burning easy.
> > My
> > >13 year old daughter uses it. Of course, she is unusually bright :)
> >
> > I agree w/ respect to K3B - it's a nice app, but I couldn't find
> > anything in K3B for burning images (when I selected that dialog, it
> > wouldn't let me choose the device)...
>
> Selecting images (CD DVD) to burn is under the Tools menu in K3b. In the
> File->New place you select things for making the image first.
>

I've neverhad any problems gettingk3b toburn an iso, but most ofthe
isos thus burned are unusable. I've been too lazy to check how to set
the options, so I just use cdrecord. The major problems I have with
k3b are:

1.  Burn-free is left enabled. cdrecord turns that off by default.
2. k3b uses dao (?) instead of tao. cdrecord usestao by default.

I don't think I've every burned a coaster with cdrecord.





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