How can I burn a CD from Ubuntu server (command line)

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I would like to know what steps I need to take to burn a few files onto a CD-R from the command line interface. I am using Ubuntu Server 8.04.1

Thanks!

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said :
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komputes (komputes) said :
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Thanks a lot for this link, but I had an issue blanking a CD-RW. I do not find all the information to be quite accurate, or at least the part for blanking CD's. Do you know if there is another way to burn a cd by command line without manually creating an iso of the data first?

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##Not able to blank a CD-RW##

$ cdrecord -vv dev=1,0 blank=all
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.scsidev: '1,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
WARNING: the deprecated pseudo SCSI syntax found as device specification.
Support for that may cease in the future versions of wodim. For now,
the device will be mapped to a block device file where possible.
Run "wodim --devices" for details.
Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... giving up.
WARNING: /dev/scd0 seems to be mounted!
wodim: No such file or directory.
Cannot open SCSI driver!
For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
the wodim documentation.

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said :
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as far as i am aware all burning applications like to have an .iso to burn from

Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
this suggests that you have something open in the cdrw drive (a folder, a terminal or something), in essense its 'busy' because something else is still using that drive and thus it can't be blanked until its not busy.

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