basic gentoo question

[John covici]

I successfully used cdrecord -v -dev=ATAPI:0,0 --overburn --speed 24
<isoname>  .  You can't do /dev/hdc if you have a recent kernel after
2.6.9, I think.

on Saturday 01/13/2007 Jude DaShiell(jdashiel at shellworld.net) wrote
 > 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.
 > 
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