[lug] knoppix style cd for cd burns? [OT]

[Paul E Condon]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:21:35PM +0000, D. Stimits wrote:
> I don't have a cd burner in my computer, but I borrow my parents' for 
> that at times. Unfortunately, they use Win2k and due to system lockups, 
> they are restricted to which burner software they use (it is an HP 
> burner). The software which they have which does not crash the system 
> can save files to the cd, but cannot create an iso from an iso. Meaning 
> if I have disk1.iso, it goes onto the cd as disk1.iso *file*, and isn't 
> really an iso that is bit-per-pit that file. So I am thinking about 
> whether there is any knoppix style distro that can use the HP cd writer, 
> and also read NTFS? If so, I could boot under that cd and create ISO's 
> of iso images on the NT filesystem. Anyone here know of a good 
> all-in-1-cd for doing this without actually installing linux? 
> Unfortunately I don't have any experience with them, and in order to get 
> the cd, I'd have to do something like order it from cheapbytes, so I 
> need to know ahead of time exactly what works.
> 

I have a generic CD burner that was made redundant when I decided I needed
to be able to burn DVDs. It works with Debian. If you had such installed
on your computer would that solve the problem? If so, its yours. Where 
should I send it?


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Paul E Condon           
pecondon at mesanetworks.net