making .ISO files suitable for burning to CD-R

1) make checks on directory of files for sizing under 65

0MB 2) cd to folder above folder to be ISO'd

3) mkisofs -r -J -o imagename.iso foldername/

4) can test mount the .ISO with

mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 cd_image /cdrom

driving cdrecord to write an .iso file to CD-R...

1) > cdrecord -scanbus #to make sure that writer is available

2) > # note the writer's scsi channel information (ie. "1,4,0")

3) # insert media into drive

4) cd /iso/file/folder/

5) cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=1,4,0 -data cd_image.iso

6) # let it run!

See this HOW-To for more detail and other options
driving cdrecord to write .wav files to an audio CD-R

1) cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,6,0 -audio track1.wav track2.wav...

2) NOTE: cdrecord may complain about abnormal track sizes needing the '-pad' parameter...

As of using Centos/Redhat in 2005, there are some odd behaviors in specifying "dev=".

Following the discussion thread here, it is useful to specify the device directly by OS /dev/ assignment.

Burning VOB files to DVD

mkisofs -dvd-video -o nameofdvd.img /home/bob/dvd/

growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=x -Z /dev/pathtodvdburner=/home/bob/nameofdvd.img