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Random information about burning CD/DVD's with slack (and linux in general). Feel free to tack on any insight you might have on the subject.

==The Basics==

In most modern situations, you will not have to tell the software which device to use (unless you have more than one device). In case you have older hardware or software, it may be necessary to pass the device info. On a 2.6 kernel, you can use:

 cdrecord dev=/dev/someDevice

On a 2.4 kernel, you use one of these commands:

 cdrdao scanbus
 cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATA
This should present you with some information:
 ATA:1,0,0            DVDRW   , IDE1004         , 0151
 1,0,0   100) 'DVDRW   ' 'IDE1004         ' '0151' Removable CD-ROM
To pass this device (1,0,0) to cdrdao or cdrecord:
 cdrdao --device 1,0,0
 cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0
These will be SCSI ID's if you have a SCSI burner, or are using ide-scsi (no-longer necessary)

==CDR==
===Creating an image===
====From a disc====
 readcd dev=ATA:1,0,0 f=image.iso
 dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image.iso
====From a directory of files====
-r provides Rock Ridge extension (for posix)<br>
-J provides Joliet extension (for windows)
 mkisofs -o image.iso -J -r /path/to/files/
===Burning an image===
 cdrdao write image.cue
 cdrecord -dao driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/cdrom image.iso 

==DVDR==
===From an image===
 growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=dvd.iso
===A directory of files===
-R provides Rock Ridge extension (for posix)<br>
-J provides Joliet extension (for windows)
 growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -J -R /path/to/files/
===A DVD Video===
This path must be structured like a DVD, see Authoring.
 growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video /path/to/dvd/files/

==Blanking==
===Quick===
 cdrdao blank --blank-mode minimal
 dvd+rw-format -blank /dev/dvd
===Full===
 cdrdao blank --blank-mode full
 dvd+rw-format -blank=full /dev/dvd

==Links==
===Burning Software===
; DVD+RW-Tools : http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
; CDRDAO : http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
; Cdrtools : http://www.fokus.fhg.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html

===GUI Frontends===
; X-CD-Roast : http://www.xcdroast.org/
; Gnome CD Master : http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/gcdmaster/index.html
; Gnome Toaster : http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/
; Nautilus-CD-Burner : http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/
; K3B : http://www.k3b.org/

===Authoring Tools===
; dvdauthor : http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
; DVDStyler : http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/
; &lsquo;Q&lsquo; DVD-Author : http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/

===Format Converters===
; CCD2ISO : http://ccd2iso.sourceforge.net/
; NRG2ISO : http://gregory.kokanosky.free.fr/v4/linux/nrg2iso.en.html