Formatting a CD with Knoppix.

[Chuckbaker]

I am pretty new to linux (used DOS and Windows my whole life) and I just started using Knoppix a few weeks ago. I am still tring to learn all the command in knoppix.

What I want to know is how you would format a blank CD so that you can write to it. I have read about the dformat and mformat to do a floppy.

Can you use either of these command to format a CD with FAT32?

[mzilikazi]

It is not necessary to format a blank cd. If it is a cdrw and you wish to blank it simply issue:

cdrecord -blank=fast dev=/dev/hdb

(or wherever your drive is).

See man cdrecord for further information.

[firebyrd10]

There is an option in k3b to erase a cd if you want something GUI.

(You can't format a cd with a hardrive Filesystem like Fat)