[ale] BURNING A LIVE CD

[Stephen R. Blevins]

A very large "Thank you" to Alan Dobkin.  The command line at the
end of your message was just what the doctor ordered.  I executed it from the "command line" screen and it worked exactly as I had hoped.  I guess Windows XP Home can indeed burn ISO images.

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Alan Dobkin wrote:
> 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
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Stephen R. Blevins
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