[H-GEN] Copying Linux Distribution CD's.

[Christopher Biggs]

"Cowan, James" <JCowan at yvw.com.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> Can anyone else tell me about copying linux CD's,
> Will standard dos/win CD burning software copy the disks, or
> is there any burning software available for Linux?
> 
Yes. Yes.

For copying CDs under linux, all you need is dd and cdrecord.  For
building ISO9660 CDs from your own data, you'll also need 
mkisofs.

If you use an ATAPI CDR drive, you'll almost certainly need to rebuild
your kernel (to turn on ATAPI SCSI emulation).

cjb.

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