Using xcdroast 0.98 on sg6
Please give priority on sg6 to people using the machine to write mathematical CD's.
The order of priority should be similar to that in effect for the copy machines.
The program xcdroast is an easy to use one with our Plextor CD burner on sg6.
A fine manual on this easy to use program is at
http://www.xcdroast.org/manual/.
It appears that the only way you need to indicate whether you are doing a
rewritable CD (CD-RW) vs. a read-only one
(CD-R) is by which kind of CD you actually
insert. The Plextor is rated at 52 speed for CD-R's and 32 speed for CD-RW's.
Briefly the procedure for burning a CD-R or CD-RW is this:
- Login to sg6 and by typing startx,
perhaps, enter a graphical environment such as gnome.
- You probably need to click on Setup
initially.
- The only important setting you may have to change is where to archive
your disk images. A good choice is the world writable directory /archive/scratch.
- Save your configuration if necessary.
- Now click on Master Tracks button to
the left of the interface.
- From the right side of the window, select
the directory you wish to write onto the CD.
- Press Add below this pane of the
window.
- From the middle part of the window, click on Create
Session/Image.
- Press on Calculate Size.
- Press on Master to Image File creating,
perhaps, track1.img in the archive/scratch
directory.
- Then click on the Write Tracks button
to the left of the interface.
- From the right side of the window, select
the mastered images (perhaps track1.img)
you wish to write onto the CD.
- Press Add below this pane of the
window.
- In the middle part of the window, select the tracks you wish to write
and click on Accept
Track Layout.
- Now press on the Write Tracks tab
over the middle pane of the window and then the Write
Tracks button at the bottom to actually write your CD.
- To clean up, please press on the Delete Tracks
button to the left and remove the mastered tracks which are no longer needed.
Please Keep in Mind: