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commit 8455c807396ca127f9818eea404115775da169ec
Author: Zach Oglesby <oglesbyzm(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jan 30 12:21:35 2011 +0100
Added instructions for command line burning, BZ bug 614258
diff --git a/en-US/Burning.xml b/en-US/Burning.xml
index 3afd073..9b7a332 100644
--- a/en-US/Burning.xml
+++ b/en-US/Burning.xml
@@ -317,6 +317,45 @@
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
- </section>
+ </section>
+ <section id="sec-Burning_ISO_images_to_disc-Burning-cmd-line">
+ <title>Burning discs with wodim from the command line</title>
+ <para>
+ <application>wodim</application> is a command line tool that makes burning iso files to disc easy. These instructions will help you to burn a dics when a Graphical User Interface is not avaliable.
+ </para>
+ <procedure>
+ <step>
+ <para>
+ Install <application>wodim</application> with the command <command>su -c 'yum install wodim'</command>
+ </para>
+ </step>
+ <step>
+ <para>
+ Locate your cdrom drives location with <command>wodim --devices</command>. This should give something like the following:
+ <screen>
+[zoglesby@zlaptop ~]$ wodim --devices
+wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) :
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'TSSTcorp' 'DVD+-RW TS-T633C'
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ </screen>
+ </para>
+ </step>
+ <step>
+ <para>
+ Using the output from above identify your drive location. In this example it would be /dev/scd0, and issue the following command to burn the cd.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>wodim -v dev=/dev/xxx speed=4 -eject /path/to/Fedora.iso</command>.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <title>Replace values</title>
+ <para>
+ Be sure to replace the dev=/dev/xxx with your drive path, and /path/to/Fedora.iso to the actual path and name of the ISO file
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </step>
+ </procedure>
+ </section>
</section>
</section>