Burning with cdrecord

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Introduction

This short article describes the steps needed to burn a CD/DVD iso without using a fancy GUI-based program. Instead, this method makes use of cdrecord which is run from the shell.

Burning an ISO with cdrecord

Locate your CD/DVD burner

You need to first locate your CD/DVD burner on your scsibus. Do so with the following command:

$ cdrecord -scanbus

Mine returned the following:

scsibus2:
2,0,0   200) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW  DVR-107D' '1.21' Removable CD-ROM
2,1,0   201) *
2,2,0   202) *
2,3,0   203) *
2,4,0   204) *
2,5,0   205) *
2,6,0   206) *
2,7,0   207) *

So my DVD burner is on 2,0,0 which I need to know for the actual burn command.

Burn the ISO file

Simply use the following command substituting the location of your own burner for the 2,0,0 in the statement below:

$ cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=2,0,0 /path/to/iso.iso

The 'speed=8' line can be adjusted to your preferences where the number represents the CD burning speed (8 being 8x). See [this article] for additional examples.

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