Mar
15
I was working on a project the other day with a friend and he was having some trouble burning an .iso image of one of the Ubuntu 7.04 Herd releases. He asked me about installing gnomebaker or K3B for burning the image. While I have used both of those programs I found that a disk image can be burned very easily directly from the the file location. Here are a few steps to burning a disk image in three clicks.
- First, you’ll need to have a .iso image available for burning. This could be located on your desktop, home folder or I’ve even burned an image using this method over on NFS connection. You’ll also need a blank CD or DVD in the drive.
- Once you’ve selected your disk image you can right-click the .iso file and select “Write to disk…” (two clicks)
- This will open a dialog box letting you verify the disk type, size and burn speed. If all is correct (which it normally is) you can click Burn. Sit back and relax. Your disk will be finished in just a few minutes. (one click)
Done. When finished it’ll ask if you’d like to Eject, Burn Another Copy or if you’re just Done. So very easy.
I find this method much faster and a little more intuitive than the other cd / dvd burning applications. Not to say they aren’t great apps, but if you’re just burning a simple disk image this should be a bit faster. I’ve also had far fewer coasters using this method than I have with the others.
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$ wodim image.iso
You can’t get any faster than this.
Regards,
rjc
Does wodim work only with cd/dvd writer?
What if I want to creae an iso file on hdd?
@Stefano $man wodim
whomever suggested the wodim command thanks!
for some reason Ubuntu Feisty wouldn’t accept my blank CD…wodim burned it right away. how sweet!
This does not work if the ISO image file is located in a Samba share.
Thanks for the tip. I was doing a pptp-linux install on ubuntu and it asked for the gusty gibbon cd which I didn’t have at that moment but had the .iso on the hdd. Right Click/ Write to disc was simple and easy!
Thanks for the tip and for opening the topic. And about rjc reply, thanks very much. I was looking for an easy way of burning cds and dvds iso images in my server, without having to copy to client. It did make the trick and wodim was already installed in ubuntu server, so it was easy.
Amazingly easy to create a bootable CD from an iso image. I admit, I was skeptical, but all I had to do was put a blank CD into my Ubuntu machine’s DVD drive and follow the instructions. Thanks.
Thanks it’s no doubt the fastest way to burn image cd. thanks alot
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thanks a lot
Thanks for this. It really helped, I screwed up on a couple other times, and nothing worked after it, so now I have to do this. Thank you!
This assumes you have a particular burning program installed! When I right Click the ISO file on Windows 2003 Server, There is NO selection for “Write to Disk”
@carib - you realize you’re commenting on a Linux specific site, right? On Ubuntu Linux you don’t need any ‘particular burning software installed’.
Great tip, thanks!