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| author | A. Wilcox <AWilcox@Wilcox-Tech.com> | 2019-05-03 11:30:49 -0500 |
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| committer | A. Wilcox <AWilcox@Wilcox-Tech.com> | 2019-05-03 11:33:44 -0500 |
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Inst Handbook: Add writing CDs on Linux/BSD (#74)
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diff --git a/src/install/1_begin.xml b/src/install/1_begin.xml index bbd4951..e901a51 100644 --- a/src/install/1_begin.xml +++ b/src/install/1_begin.xml @@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ </section> <section> <title>Using Linux or BSD</title> - <para>TODO</para> + <para>On Linux or BSD systems, you can use either <command>cdrecord</command> or <command>cdrskin</command> to write the installation image to a CD via the command line. Both commands basically share the same syntax.</para> + <para>For example, to burn the image onto a CD at a speed of 4 and with verbose command output, run <command>cdrecord -v speed=4 <userinput>[image]</userinput></command> or <command>cdrskin -v speed=4 <userinput>[image]</userinput></command>, replacing <userinput>[image]</userinput> with the file name of the image you want to burn to the CD.</para> + <para>If there's only one optical disc drive on your system, it should be auto-detected. If not, find the device name using 'dmesg' or 'lsblk' and specify it using the 'dev' option. For example, if your optical device is <literal>/dev/sr0</literal>, run <command>cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 speed=4 <userinput>[image]</userinput></command>.</para> </section> </section> </chapter> |