Burning Fedora Core CD ISO

Download the FC5 CD ISOs and check them with sha1sum as in the DVD post.

I have a SCSI CD ROM burner, so to find out its device location:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

The output looks like this:

Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W1210S Rev: 1.01
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02

CDRecord needs the SCSI bus, target and LUN, which are listed above in Channel, Id and Lun, respectively. Alternately, you could use cdrecord -scanbus. Note cdrecord must be run as root.

So the command is:

cdrecord dev=0,5,0 -v driveropts=burnfree FC-5-i386-disc1.iso

I also have an ATAPI DVD burner. To get its device name, use cdrecord dev=ATAPI: -scanbus (the case of ATAPI is significant).

To burn with the DVD burner, it’s the same command, only with a different device name:

cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 -v driveropts=burnfree FC-5-i386-disc5.iso