Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, I’ve been working from home. This caused me, for reasons that are unimportant, to learn how to burn a CD-RW from the command line in Slackware Linux.
The first step was to erase the media in the drive. (While DVD-RW media can be overwritten, I’ve always had to erase CD-RW media before burning.)
I found the spell for this on the Slackware WIKI, slackwiki: https://www.slackwiki.com/Burning_CD/DVD#Blanking. I used the quick method:
cdrdao blank --blank-mode minimalI fumbled around with growisofs for a while, but had no luck. Searching the web, I kept finding references to wodim, which seems to come with Ubuntu.
Finally I came around to cdrecord, but I got the error message:
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2015 Joerg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open or use SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
Afer much frustation, I figured out–the probably obvious anser–that I needed a link in /dev/ named pg(some number). I followed the example of /dev/cdrom. The spell I used was:
ln -sf sr0 pg0
This just left burning the image to the CD. The spell for that is uber-smiple:
cdrecord somefile.iso
So, yes! You can burn a CD-RW from the command line in Slackware!
Happy Slacking!
Stu…