Burning ISOs

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== How Do I Burn The CD With Windows? ==

Naturally, you can burn the CD with Windows if that is all you have. The downloaded file must be burned as an ISO-file. If Winrar (or any other archiving tool) is linked with an .ISO-file, it may by default try and burn the CD as a file. It is therefore necassary to check.

Do not burn the ISO-File as a data-disk!! It is neccessary to burn the ISO-File as Disk-At-Once

You have several good options to burn in Windows. Open Source burners for Windows

cdrtfe :compatable for Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP (tested with Win95, Win98SE, Win2000, WinXP) only for Win9x/ME: working ASPI Layer (e.g. Adaptec ASPI 4.60) Closed Source and Proprietary burners for Windows

   * Nero (not nero express!)
   * CDR-WIN which you can find as a test version on the net. CDR-WIN burns with reduced speed as a test version, but should be sufficient for the job. The right point in the menu is "Burn a ISO 9660 Image File to CD".
   * Another good freeware tool is CD/DVD Burner XP pro
   * Burncdcc from terabyteunlimited it can only burn ISOs..

[edit] Burning The CD With Linux

If you already run Linux on your machine you should burn the CD either by using the shell or with any of your installed burning programs.

With Mandriva and other Linux distributions K3b comes as default cd-burning tool. Open it, select "Extras" -> "burn CD-Image..." and select the ISO-File to burn (e.g. Mandriva2007_disk1.iso).

K3B initially calculates the MD5-sum for the ISO-file (this takes a moment). If the shown checksum is similar to the checksum in the MD5-file, your download was successful and you can burn the file by simply hitting "Start".

You can burn it directly from the shell with:

$ cdrecord dev=0,0,0 driveropts=burnfree -dao -overburn -v Mandriva2007_disk1.iso

If you prefer to put it o­nto a CD-RW, you should empty the disk before, using

$ cdrecord dev=x,y,z blank=fast

The values for dev=x,x,x (in our example x,y,z) can be obtained with

$ cdrecord --scanbus

or for ATAPI-CD-Rom with

$ cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI