Topic title pretty much sums it up. My computer doesn’t have an optical drive, and I don’t want to install one because I don’t want my family to nag to do things for them. I still have a need for an optical drive though, so I have a problem.
I have an old workstation I’ve installed an optical drive in, and that I intend to install openSUSE on.
I know the short answer to this is yes, it can be done. I could SSH into the machine and burn it through console. What I want to know is if there is an easier way to do this through a gui, so that my family can use it too.
If you want something that can be used from any OS, do a search for webcdwriter. There is a free version that can burn CDs, and a commercial Pro version that can burn DVDs also.
On 2010-08-06 08:06, superppl wrote:
>
> Hello there,
>
> Topic title pretty much sums it up. My computer doesn’t have an optical
> drive, and I don’t want to install one because I don’t want my family to
> nag to do things for them. I still have a need for an optical drive
> though, so I have a problem.
> I have an old workstation I’ve installed an optical drive in, and that
> I intend to install openSUSE on.
> I know the short answer to this is yes, it can be done. I could SSH
> into the machine and burn it through console. What I want to know is if
> there is an easier way to do this through a gui, so that my family can
> use it too.
Better not
Notice that you will have then another can of worms: that whatever you are going to burn should be
local to that machine. If you start a gui (ssh -X or -Y etc) that program will probably see the
files local to that machine, so they’ll ask you to export their filesystem so that they are seen in
that server. And then you will have a huge network traffic during the iso image creation - if they
attempt to create an burn on the fly… well, better not.
So the procedure would be, create the iso file on their machines, copy to the server, burn. Mmmm…
a bit complicated. Will they accept it, gui or no gui?
Interesting life
(just pointing you at some other issues you have to think about )
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
I’ve used forwarded X sessions before, but then that’s hardly better than SSH because the user needs to be linux smart. I’m looking for an OS independent solution so that my family can burn their discs.
Webcdwriter looks very promising, but I’m not looking to pay for software right now. I’m actually curious if there’s an application likes ktorrent or transmission that can be remotely accessed through a browser.
@ Carlos E. R.
I’m already aware of that issue, I could just use sftp to move those files to the computer. I’m actually going to setup a samba share on that computer so we can also use it as file storage and then burn the files that have just been moved to that computer.
