[ale] BURNING A LIVE CD

[Alan Dobkin]

On 1/9/2007 6:25 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Well, I was being half-facetious.  But, the notion ties into things I've
> run into before in all-Windows environments.  No one knew how to do a
> port scan or knew of an app to do it with.  No one could arbitrarily
> read data off of a tape to even see what was on it.  And, no one could
> burn a CD-R without the app on the CD that came with the computer or the
> CD-ROM drive.

This is pretty off topic at this point, but the people who didn't know 
how to do these things on Windows probably wouldn't know how to do them 
on Linux either (or possibly wouldn't care if they aren't "technical").  
For the most part, they are using the exact same applications on both 
platforms.  For example, Nmap (to do port scans) has been available for 
Windows since 2000:

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2000/q4/0013.html

There is also Ethereal (now Wireshark), which has also been around for 
several years, as well as WinPcap with WinDump (tcpdump for Windows) and 
many others.

For reading data off a tape, tar has been available on Windows for at 
least a few years, both as a standalone app, as well as part of Cygwin 
(which includes many standard Linux tools).  And for burning an ISO, 
there have been other suggestions already posted here, but my favorite 
is Microsoft's CLI app "cdburn.exe" which is part of the Resource Kit.  
It is very simple to use:  cdburn d: image.iso

Alan