[wplug] how to burn ISOs in Pitt' s unix labs?

Bryon Gill bgtrio at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 15 14:52:26 EST 2004


Bill,

That's not quite right.  cdrecord works with ide drives, they just have to 
be using scsi emulation; most distros set this up by default (at least I'm 
sure Knoppix and Redhat do).

You may well have to be root to run this anyway though.

Bryon



On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Bill Moran wrote:

> Juan Zuluaga wrote:
> > wplug, 
> > We are in front of a RH9 machine at the Pitt computer
> > labs, trying to burn some distro CDs. However,
> > cdrecord complains: 
> > 
> > bash-2.05b$ cdrecord -scanbus
> > Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
> > 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling
> > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
> > cdrecord: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg1'.
> > Cannot open SCSI driver.
> > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord
> > -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
> > cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try
> > 'cdrecord dev=help'.
> > bash-2.05b$ 
> > -----
> > there is no xcdroast or koncd here. Any idea on how to
> > burn cds in these labs? I could find the way in the XP
> > machines either... 
> > (please answer to my account -- your quick answer
> > would be very appreciated, but my change from "digest"
> > to "real time" on Wplug may not kick in yet...) 
> 
> You'll probably need to be root to burn CDs (unless the
> admin has changed those defaults)
> 
> Additionally, cdrecord only works on SCSI burners, is
> the burner in that machine a SCSI or ATA?
> 
> 






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