[ale] Burning Redhat 7.3 iso's

[Geoffrey]

Jeff Layton wrote:
> Good Evening,
> 
>    I'm trying to burn my own Redhat iso's for the first
> time (I usually just buy some cheap ones off the net,
> but I'm expanding :) I tried burning them using xcdroast
> both with Disk-at-Once (DAO) and Track-At-Once
> (TAO) since I couldn't find anything that told me how
> they were created. No joy. Everytime I tried to mount
> the CD I received the error,
> 
> [root at home2 tmp]# mount /mnt/cdrom
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

Can you mount other cdroms in this way?

> 
>    So, I searched the web for some help and looked at RH's
> manual (Chapter 4) on how to make CDs. They mentioned
> that you can use cdrecord directly via the command,
> 
> cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0   disk1.iso
> 
> (I'm trying to burn at 4x and my burner is device 0,0,0 found
> via "cdrecord --scanbus" and disk1.iso is the iso I
> downloaded). This didn't work either!


Is the media you're using rated at 4x or better?  Try burning at speed=1 
or leave the speed option out and permit cdrecord to choose the speed.

post the output of 'cdrecord --scanbus'

>    Does anyone have any suggestions on what I'm doing
> wrong?

Not yet, the above attempt looks like it should have worked.  I use the 
same, without the -eject, but I doubt that makes any difference.

> 
> TIA,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
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