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linux-magazine.com » Issues » 2005 » 55 » WRITING TOOLS   Before you burn a data CD in Linux, you need an ISO image – mkisofs helps you create an Iso image. To save disks, you might like to check the image before you burn it with md5sum. mkisofs, mount, md5sum WRITING TOOLS Author(s): HEIKE JURZIK Before you burn a data CD in Linux, you need an ISO image – mkisofs helps you create an Iso image. To save disks, you might like to check the image before you burn it with md5sum. CDs and disk partitions use different filesystems. Whereas Linux may use the Ext3 or ReiserFS format for partitions, CDs use the ISO9660 filesystem. It doesn’t make much sense to burn a partition block by block onto a CD. Instead, you will need to run the mkisofs tool first to create an ISO9660 filesystem where you can store the required files. Having done so, you can burn the “ISO image” onto disk using the cdrecord tool. This issue of Command Line takes an in-depth look at command line tools for burning and verifying CD images. Read full article as PDF » Comments Before you burn a data CD in Linux, you need an ISO image – mkisofs helps you create an Iso image. To save disks, you might like to check the image before you burn it with md5sum. Related Articles MOUNT UP Media access with mount and fstab MIRROR IMAGE Creating ISO images with dd and mkisofs No More Downloads! Save the download and take Linux Magazine DVDs instead. Each DVD contains a full distro like Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandriva, Fedora, or Debian and comes with the corresponding issue of Linux Magazine. Don't waste time downloading Linux! more...

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