Burning ISOs

Thomas Taylor linxt at comcast.net
Sat Feb 25 21:21:48 UTC 2006


On Saturday 25 February 2006 12:01, Leon Stringer wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 19:42 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 February 2006 19:35, Leon Stringer wrote:
> > > I'll install k3b and see what the results are like.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your replies!
> >
> > If you set the Verify flag in k3b it will check the md5sum of the burn
> > agains the md5sum of the original file.
>
> Sure, but I'm told this isn't reliable due to a long standing problem
> (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-January/msg02061.htm
>l).
>
> And as I suspected K3B uses cdrecord underneath as does GNOME. That said
> I've just burnt one CD with K3B which has worked first time so it's
> doing a better job than GNOME, so I'm getting somewhere.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leon...

You might also check out "man cdrecord", paying attention go the examples and 
diagnostics near the end.  I've used the examples by just copying, then 
changing the device and file name and it worked great.

HTH,
Tom

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