Another task that turns out to be not too hard. I couldn't find any native support for writing ISO images under Windows XP, but there is a version of cdrecord for Windows. It requires Cygwin to be installed, but I always have that on any Windows desktop I use.
The -scanbus
shows what devices are available:
$ cdrecord.exe -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J�rg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'ST340014' 'A ' '3.10' Disk 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) HOST ADAPTOR scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CD-R/RW SW-248F ' 'R602' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) HOST ADAPTOR
As 'CD-R/RW SW-248F
' is pretty obviously the CD drive, I know
the unit to use is 1,0,0
. Writing the image to disk is as simple
as:
$ cdrecord.exe -dev=1,0,0 cd-image.iso ./cdrecord: No write mode specified. ./cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. ./cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. ./cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J�rg Schilling scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'SAMSUNG ' [... etc ... ]