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Create multisession ISO image to burn on a remote CD
I need to be able to take a number of files on one machine and generate a .iso image to burn to a multisession CD-R that has already had a session written to it. I can easily create an image for the ...
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Burn remote data on to a disc
I have an ISO image in another system which I need to burn on my system. I can copy that image to my system using SCP and then do burning. But I would like to know, whether I can directly burn the ...
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How to burn iso image to DVD using dd command
I was looking at the command to burn iso image to a dvd. But I couldnt get the name of the device. In the /dev/ I could see cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw. I am using debian.
When I gave the command, I got ...
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what determines overburn capability of CD-R?
I had a 733MiB ISO image which I tried to write to a CD-R. I had two CD-R disks from different manufacturers. With first CD-R disk(TDK) the burning process failed, but using the second CD-R(EMTEC), it ...
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understanding “-dao”, “-sao”, “-tao” and “-raw” writing modes for wodim in practice
In wodim one can choose between many different writing modes like Disk At Once("-dao"), Session At Once("-sao"), Track At Once("-tao") or Raw writing mode("-raw"). As I understand, Track At Once ...
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Splitting large directory tree into specified-size chunks?
I have a directory tree that I would like to back up to optical disks. Unfortunately, it exceeds the size of any one disk (it's about 60GB). I am looking for a script that would split this tree into ...
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mkisofs can't find file
I'm trying to create a .iso file using mkisofs.
I have the following folders:
my OS
|
|--src
|--bin
I used the following command:
mkisofs -R -input-charset utf8 -b bin/boot.bin -no-emul-boot ...
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Failure Writing a Multi-Session Audio/Data CD w/ cdrdao
I'm trying to create a multi-session CD (CD-Extra), but hitting some errors with cdrdao. I'm following these steps.
The audio session of the CD finished successfully, but writing the data portion ...
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How to verify a CD against an ISO image?
I've got a physical burnt CD and the original ISO image of it. No reference checksum files were provided for the CD contents. How do I check the actual CD is correct (corresponds to the original ...
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How to create UDF images and burn them to DVD or CDROM?
Writing CDs with cdrecord and making images with genisoimage is no problem.
I want to write DVDs in a similar manner, first creating an image, then burning it to disk. This is quite beneficial, since ...
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Verify if a system has DVD burners?
Is it possible to verify if the system has a DVD burner installed? I need this for a script.
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Can't burn DVD — incompatible format
I have been trying to burn a few ISOs lately with no success and have certainly used this hardware in the past, so I am not sure what's going on. I am using DVD-R media (tried multiple discs) which ...
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Any LiveCD or LiveDVD Distro whith multi session burning onto LiveMedia
I'm looking for any Distro or LiveLinux for CD/DVD (NOT usb/SD card usage) which does the following:
1) All changes to the filesystem are written to the RAM disk with an overlaid filesystem.
2) Upon ...
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How to check why the cdrom cannot be open exclusively
Sometimes when I try to burn an ISO image, the message that "/dev/sr0" cannot be open exclusively appears. lsof does not shows any program that opens "/dev/sr0" (I checked for aliases too).
