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This will produce a binary named
./xorriso/xorriso
which you may strip to reduce it in size
strip ./xorriso/xorriso
You may copy or move it to a directory where it can be found by the shell,
you may execute xorriso at the place where it was built, or you may execute
as superuser:
make install
There is a man page
For general concepts, options and usage examples see
man 1 xorriso
This man page is part of the tarball as
xorriso/xorriso.1
which gets installed with "make install" but may also be place manually in the
./man1 directory below the directories mentioned in environment variablei
$MANPATH.
It gets installed with "make install" but may also be place manually in the
./man1 directory below one of the the directories mentioned in environment
variable $MANPATH.
You may get a first glimpse by
man ./xorriso/xorriso.1
Drives and Disk File Objects
Drives and Disk File Objects
The user of xorriso needs rw-permission for the CD burner device.
A list of rw-accessible drives can be obtained by
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0 -dev '/dev/sr0' rwrw-- : 'TSSTcorp' 'CDDVDW SH-S203B'
1 -dev '/dev/hda' rwrw-- : 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8162B'
So full and insecure enabling of both for everybody would look like
Full and insecure enabling of both for everybody would look like
chmod a+rw /dev/sr0 /dev/hda
This is equivalent to the traditional setup chmod a+x,u+s cdrecord.
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device file to that group and to disallow w-access to others.
A possible source of problems are hald or other automounters.
If you can spot a process "hald-addon-storage" with the address of
your desired drive, then consider to kill it.
If you cannot get rid of the automounter that easily, try whether it helps
to always load the drive tray manually before starting a write run of
xorriso. Wait until the drive light is off.
Better try to unmount an eventually mounted media before a write run.
Besides true optical drives, xorriso can also address disk files as input or
output drives. The addresses of the disk files have to be preceded by "stdio:".
Like:
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Usage examples
For options and general concepts see
man 1 xorriso
>>> Some examples
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