[kde-linux] Write data file to CD

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Thomas Taylor <linxt at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 11:28:23 -0700
> Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does KDE provide a simple way to write a single data file to a CD? In
>> the distant past I used k3b but I don't want to emerge that if I don't
>> need to.
>>
>> If it matters, this is Gentoo + kde-4.8.3.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
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> Hi Mark.
> An easy way would be to go into a terminal (konsole) and dd the file to the CD.
>
> "dd if=full-path-to-file of=full-path-to-cd-writer" without the quotes.
>
> I'd just write a short bash script to do that if you do it often.
>
> Tom
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Thanks Tom. I'll keep this around for next time. As I was waiting for
a response I found the info on the web for creating an iso file, so I
did that, wrote the file and updated BIOS since I wrote my first
request here.

Cheers,
Mark