perplexing CD burning question

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Apr 6 13:41:06 UTC 2004



G. Gunther Wallen wrote:

>I tried that
>and X-CD ROAST and gToaster.....
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>after burning the discs, I can read them on my PC just fine but not on
>the mac.
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If the original iso is bootable on the mac the method below will make it 
bootable.
If the iso was not mac bootable then it will not be mac bootable after 
burning this way.

Have you verified the images are mac bootable??

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>On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 08:55, duncan brown wrote:
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>>why not just go with the command line cdrecord?
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>>first, type this (everything is done as root)
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>>cdrecord -scanbus
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>>you'll see a scsi id (0,0,0 or something similar)
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>>now, use that scsi id and set your recording speed (SPEED and DEV)
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>>cdrecord -v speed=SPEED dev=DEV yellowdog-disc1.iso
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>>this'll burn your yellowdog isos.
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>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "G. Gunther Wallen" <gunny at thewallens.net>
>>Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:49:52 -0400
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>Subject: Re: perplexing CD burning question
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>>>believe it or not,
>>>there was little info.
>>>I think the crux of my question is what software do I use to burn a mac
>>>bootable cd?  Nero could do it with no problem.
>>>
>>>On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 08:30, duncan brown wrote:
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>>>>wouldn't the yellow dog forums/site/whatever be a better place for this question?
>>>>
>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>From: "G. Gunther Wallen" <gunny at thewallens.net>
>>>>Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:18:07 -0400
>>>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>>>Subject: perplexing CD burning question
>>>>
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>>>>>I have an old Apple powerbook G3 that I want to bring to life with
>>>>>Yellow Dog Linux.
>>>>>I have downloaded the ISO's and have tried 3-4 different times to make
>>>>>cd's the machine can boot from.
>>>>>I have read someplace that k3b has issues with this.  Anyone have a
>>>>>solution?
>>>>>
>>>>>To throw a monkey wrench into the question, is it possible to
>>>>>deconstruct these iso's and recreate them as one large image I can burn
>>>>>to DVD?
>>>>>
>>>>>Trying to go "all linux all the time" and I have hit a snag.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.
>>>>
>>>>+( duncan brown
>>>>+( duncanbrown at email.com
>>>>+( http://www.linuxadvocate.net
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>>Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.
>>
>>+( duncan brown
>>+( duncanbrown at email.com
>>+( http://www.linuxadvocate.net
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