wolfpeach
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Posted: Jan. 16 2005,19:02 |
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Clacker - thanks for the info on multisession cd burning - remastering is interesting, but the number of coasters I'm making is stacking up here! Maybe save remastering for a rainy day...
Also, just getting cdrecord to play nicely is giving me wrinkles! 
I've followed the suggested commands from the guide, but made 2 coasters so far... My capacity for masochism is limited, so I prefer gui aps where there is a lot of complex or fiddly command line stuff to do, so I tried to do the first bit of burning under Knoppix 3.6 and used k3b to burn an iso of the base system (9.2), with the 'multisession' option ticked.
Looking at the debug info, this worked ok, and the cdrecord command created by k3b showed up as:
/usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap -v gracetime=2 dev=0,1,0 speed=4 -tao driveopts=burnfree -eject -multi -xa /mnt/hda3/dsl-0.9.2.iso
And produced a bootable dsl disk.  All well and good...
Problems started when I tried to add the freeciv.dsl to it. Using the default settings in k3b produced a coaster. Think I should have added it as an additional iso rather than a data file. Knoppix also playing up and freezing on me a lot (how do computer systems KNOW when you are tired and frustrated??!)
Try again... This time after burning the initial image, I rebooted, bypassed KDE, straight into a root prompt and did all from the command line.
# cdrecord -msinfo dev=0,1,0
0,36422
# mkdir newcd
# cp -r /mnt/hda3/freeciv.dsl newcd
# mkisofs -J -r -C 0,36422 -M 0,1,0 -o second.iso newcd
# cdrecord -v dev=0,1,0 -eject second.iso
Again, this produced an unbootable coaster.  One thing I noticed is that the cdrecord command suggested in the multisession howto thread is v sparse - it defaulted to a write speed of X40, which felt far too fast for accurate copying, so will try again first of all simply adding speed=4 to the command...
Is there not a more detailed 'how to' anywhere? This all seems to be insanely complicated!! (or have I just been unlucky / stoopid??) Are there any K3b settings I ought to have tweaked? I have rarely had any luck with using cdrecord - seems to be one of those apps that require uber-geek status to control properly. And whilst I can no longer call myself a noob, I'm still more of an 'unter-geek' ;-)
btw, the freeciv.dsl seems to work fine when saved to HDD and loaded via the Mydsl button in elfm - how do I submit it? Couldnt find the page.
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