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Description: A quick howto on Burning CD/DVD's in Solaris from the command Line
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Created: 01/26/05 KH
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This document steps through process of making a cdrom image and burning with cdrtools.
For solaris, you will need to download, compile and install cdrtools using gcc on solaris.

Solaris does come with mkisofs which is required to make a cdrom image of data files.
The following example shows how to compile a cdrom image myca.iso from files contained in a directory myca.


	# mkisofs -J -r -o myca.iso myca


	Using INDEX000.OLD;1 for myca/demoCA/index.txt.old (index.txt.attr.old)
	Total translation table size: 0
	Total rockridge attributes bytes: 12145
	Total directory bytes: 53248
	Path table size(bytes): 342
	Max brk space used 22000
	645 extents written (1 MB)

Once the cdrom image is compiled, we need to check that the system recognizes a CDROM writer. 
We will use cdrecord -scanbus to scan SCSI devices.

On our Solaris 10 system, the CDROM device is the AOPEN at 0,0,0.

	# cdrecord -scanbus

	Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-pc-solaris2.10) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling

	Warning: Using USCSI interface.
	Warning: Volume management is running, medialess managed drives are invisible.
	Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
	scsibus0:
	0,0,0 0) 'AOPEN ' 'COM5232/AAH ' '1.06' Removable CD-ROM
	0,1,0 1) *
	0,2,0 2) *
	0,3,0 3) *
	0,4,0 4) *
	0,5,0 5) *
	0,6,0 6) *
	0,7,0 7) *
	scsibus1:
	1,0,0 100) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST373307LW ' '0007' Disk
	1,1,0 101) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST373307LW ' '0007' Disk
	1,2,0 102) *
	1,3,0 103) *
	1,4,0 104) *
	1,5,0 105) *
	1,6,0 106) *
	1,7,0 107) *

System recognizes the CDROM, so we can proceed with the burn.
Place a blank cdrom into the writer and run the cdr.sh script included below.
The script takes as an argument the file name of the iso image without the .iso extension.


	#
	# cdr.sh
	#
	# burn cds
	#

	TMP=/tmp/tmp.$$
	set -x
	CDR=cdrecord

           if [ -n "$1" ]
		then
		DEV=`$CDR -scanbus | awk '/CD-ROM/{print $1}'`
		echo $DEV
             if [ -n "$DEV" ]
		then
		$CDR -prcap dev=$DEV >$TMP
	      if grep "Does support Buffer-Underrun-Free" $TMP >/dev/null 2>&1
		then
		BF="-driveropts=burnfree"
	      else
		BF=""
	      fi
		$CDR -v "$BF" dev=$DEV $1.iso
	      else
		echo "CD Writer not found!!!"
	     fi
	   fi