ot: burning cds

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:49:24 PM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Debian Sarge with a 2.6.8 kernel and my cdrom on /dev/hdc, my device
> line looks like:
> 
> -dev=ATA:1,0,0
> 
> I'm lazy, so when I burn an iso, I just type:
> 
> cdrecord -dev=ATA:1,0,0 iso_file_name

I'm even lazier. I use Debian's /etc/default/cdrecord so that once i
figure out the right dev=xxx parameter i can put it there and never
think about it again. Now I can just use

cdrecord filename.iso

and even

mkisofs -Jr . |cdrecord -

to burn the contents of the current directory.

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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