[GLLUG] burning cds

[Bruce Smith]

> > Put in a blank CD into your CD-ROM Burner drive.  Launch K3b and then 
> > click on Tools/CD/Burn CD image.
> > 
> > A window will open up that will allow you to burn the .iso image into a 
> > usable format on the CD.
>
> There might be a bit more to it than that.
>
> For instance, you need to enable SCSI-IDE Emulation in your kernel (this
> usually means you need to recompile and install the kernel).  Also in
> the kernel configuration you will need to disable IDE CDROMs and enable
> SCSI CDROMs (even if your CDROM is an IDE...that is what the emulation
> is for).  All Linux CD Burning programs are written for SCSI burners,
> thus you need the emulation/SCSI CDROM Support.

Most modern distro's (including SuSE 9.0, which he's running) set up
SCSI emulation on CD recorders automatically for you.  He won't have to
do anything special.  The only exception is if he added the CD recorder
after installing SuSE 9.0, then he may need to go into YAST to configure
it.  (Don't scare the newbies with talk of kernel recompiling!  :-)

And when he upgrades to SuSE 9.1 (or anything with the 2.6 kernel), SCSI
emulation is no longer necessary.  You can specify the IDE device right
on the cdrecord command line (and k3b just finds it, just like before).

 - BS