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.


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