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Burning CDs in FreeBSD

Because HP DVD drives sucks, prospertine is temporarily without a CD/DVD burner, so I need to use the one in aenea.

I’d never burned a CD outside of Windows before, so I didn’t know where to begin. Turns out FreeBSD includes a tool, burncd, that interfaces with the burner itself. I just need to burn the Fedora Core 4 install CDs, so I already have the CD images, making it pretty straightforward.

There’s more info in the handbook, under Creating and Using Optical Media.

I’m trying this, straight from the handbook:

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