[PLUG] cdrecord howto

[Rick Konold]

I am not sure how to proceed here, and I only have 10 CDR disks to play with, 
so any help appreciated.  I am learning to burn cd's from distro cd's and 
have done all of the RTFM I could find, including man and howto's at 
linuxdocs.  What I could not find was a howto that actually describes how you 
copy and burn a cd from an existing distro cd.  

I did cp -r /mnt/cdrom redhat7.3-1.iso from the first disk, and that copied 
it to a directory called redhat7.3-1.iso, but note I have NOT run mkisofs on 
that directory.  Should I? or is it already an iso as copied?  Also, since it 
is a bootable cdrom, do I need to add that option to cdrecord, or can I skip 
that, since the file system already has an autorun file on it?

I have backed up data to cd's, and burned disks from iso's, but this is the 
first time I have tried to copy from distro cd's, and I am not sure how that 
is different.  I haven't enough coaster material to experiment, so any help 
would be appreciated.

Rick Konold ~~ Linux Advocate