CDRecord to burn ISO image

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cdrecord -v -dao speed=4 dev=/dev/dvd /path/to/Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso

-v - turns on verbose mode. If, heaven forbid, something were to go wrong with the burning process and I was to be left with a coaster, I will at least know what with this switch activated.

-dao - puts us in Disc At Once mode. Since we're burning an ISO image here, I don't want to add any more data later in a future 'session', so I can just instruct cdrecord to put it in one session and finalise the disc.

speed=4 - I keep the burning speed down as it is more likely to burn properly and not fail. You can experiment with higher speeds if you want, but don't go higher than either your media or burner state they can do (and do

dev=/dev/dvd - this is the device node for your DVD drive. It's usually safe to put /dev/dvd here, but if that doesn't work, you may need to use /dev/cdrom or something else.