[Blackpool] Les' Joggler Toaster

[B McLellan]

Seconded. Was interesting to hear about free/libre (not open source!)
software and GNU+Linux from RMS. :)

Tony the apt-get parameter I couldn't quite remember last night is a
simple -f, so 'sudo apt-get -i install' will fix most dependancy
problems.

:)

Rob

On 2 March 2011 22:00, Tony Hughes <tonyhughes1212 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Les
>
> Missed you at the lecture this evening brill talk by RS he pulls no punches
> when it comes to FREE software and the dangers of a closed digital society.
>
> On the ISO burning front I've got the bit of tec I ordered of e-bay to turn
> any IDE or SATA drive into an external USB drive, and it worked out of the
> box so I'll bring it and a DVDRW drive in with the kit for U Cubed on the
> 2nd April.
>
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 02/03/11 20:34, Les Pounder wrote:
>>
>> Hi lads
>>
>> I've been fiddling around today, setting up the tickets for ucubed ;) ,
>> and
>> writing a basic shell script that writes an iso to cd.
>>
>> Tickets are going well, just waiting for the podcasts to play the promo,
>> and
>> for Jono Bacon to tweet about the event, once that happens we will get a
>> lot
>> of interest.
>>
>> Linux Format have sent me a box of swag, mainly old special magazines, but
>> a
>> few CDs.
>>
>> Anyway, my iso>  cd shell script
>>
>> I am thinking of building the app using quickly (Rick would approve LOL),
>> but anyway the main command is wodim
>>
>> wodim dev\= /dev/scd0 -v -data tinycore_3.0.iso
>>
>> the above command invokes wodim, tells it that my cd drive is called scd0,
>> -v means verbose (i.e tell me what its doing), -data means data cd, and
>> tinycore_3.0.iso is the image I want to burn.
>>
>> The above command works, just need to put it into a shell script, well a
>> proper shell script. At the moment I can call the command using import.os
>> function in python, which I hope I can integrate into quickly.
>>
>> Ah well back to work ;)
>>
>> Les
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