[KLUG Members] CD Burning, a Question or Two

[Andrew Thompson]

I downloaded ISO images for Knoppix and TheOpenCD a few days ago, and
burned them to CD. They seemed to work fine when I tried booting and/or
opening them on the machine I used, but when I tried them in my new
laptop's reader, it doesn't seem to even be able to recognize them! Here
is the command I used

cdrecord dev= 1,0,0 fs=4096k driveropts=burnproof -v -useinfo speed=4
-eject -pad -data ~/TheOpenCD-1stEdition.iso

It worked fine, reporting no buffer underflows or errors as far as I
could see, and the disk is read just fine by both the burner and the
DVD/CD reader on my main machine. My best guess at this point is that
maybe I shouldn't use the -pad option, but the man page seemed to
suggest using it to avoid some compatibility problems. Can anyone offer
any better ideas?

I was also curious about this: I thought I'd heard/read somewhere that
ISO images on the hard drive could somehow be mounted or otherwise set
up to be read and used as though they'd been burned to CD. Does anyone
know anything about this, or am I just losing my mind? The former does
not preclude the latter, I know.

-- 
Andrew Thompson <apthmpsn@imagerie.com>
The Imagerie