its my suggestion he' missing the mkisofs step that wrapped the iso in a
bootable/fs/partition form.
you could never boot an iso image unless it was as above...
On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 6:20 PM, jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/04/2016 01:03 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 19:05:54 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> On 12/03/2016 05:58 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I know gui apps work.
>>> But I am a very old unix/linux user and I have ALWAYS used dd to write
>>> iso images onto blank media,
>>> and then boot that media.
>>> Why is it that current linux versions of dd cannot write to blank
>>> media???
>>>
>> Really? I've never heard of that and I can't imagine that working at
>> all. If you really must use the command line to do it, then cdrecord
>> was the tool to use, now called (or replaced by) wodim. But the
>> "cdrecord" name still works.
>>
> I dont know who wrote the above comment starting with "Really?", but
the responder obviously has not tried to write an iso file to blank media
using dd. I advise the responder to try it for him/her self.
> Same thoughts here. One could use /dev/cdrom, which should be a link to
> /dev/sr0, for reading and creating an ISO image, but not for setting up
> the device to burn discs "magically".
>
Michael, Michael...
I have no idea what you mean by ' burn discs "magically" '
Who said anything about magically.
I have been using unix since the first att release to the universities in
the 70's,
and linux since 1988/1989.
Since the appearance of optical drives and media, I had always been
able to dd an iso file directly to the optical drive in the manner I
described.
It was not "magical". It was "actual" :) :)
I was hoping that an old hand at this might shed some light as to why it
is not
currently possible to do so.
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