basic gentoo question

[Jude DaShiell]

I tried something and found out with the DIGESTS file in the same 
directory as the iso, typing: md5sum -c livecd*.DIGESTS will check the 
md5sum and sha1sum -c livecd*.DIGESTS will do a check on the sha1sum for 
you. Once I got the gentoo public key I did all three verifications and 
found out the iso is good.  Then I read some install documentation that 
needs to have the livecd burnt raw.  After that I started making coasters. 
The instructions were for cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc /home/jude/livecd<tab>.iso 
in the documentation. What that does now with wodim and cdrecord is tao 
mode not raw.  So I tried cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc --raw --eject 
/home/jude/livecd<tab>.iso and got no better results.  At this point I've 
hit a wall inside a maze with twisty little passages all alike.