On 12/04/2016 01:03 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 19:05:54 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 12/03/2016 05:58 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>> Yes, I know gui apps work.
>> But I am a very old unix/linux user and I have ALWAYS used dd to write
>> iso images onto blank media,
>> and then boot that media.
>> Why is it that current linux versions of dd cannot write to blank media???
> Really? I've never heard of that and I can't imagine that working at
> all. If you really must use the command line to do it, then cdrecord
> was the tool to use, now called (or replaced by) wodim. But the
> "cdrecord" name still works.
I dont know who wrote the above comment
starting with "Really?", but
the responder obviously has not tried to write an iso file to blank media
using dd. I advise the responder to try it for him/her self.
Same thoughts here. One could use /dev/cdrom, which should be a link
to
/dev/sr0, for reading and creating an ISO image, but not for setting up
the device to burn discs "magically".
Michael, Michael...
I have no idea what you mean by ' burn discs "magically" '
Who said anything about magically.
I have been using unix since the first att release to the universities
in the 70's,
and linux since 1988/1989.
Since the appearance of optical drives and media, I had always been
able to dd an iso file directly to the optical drive in the manner I
described.
It was not "magical". It was "actual" :) :)
I was hoping that an old hand at this might shed some light as to why it
is not
currently possible to do so.