Local CD Writing:

Local CD Writing is possible on thin clients having an IDE CD Burner.

Here's what the procedure looks like when the local cd burn setup is completed:

My users are "Windows centric" and never see Linux, booting the thin client directly to an rdesktop session.

• They place the files/directory structure they want to burn in a folder: ...\My Documents\cdburn
• They load a CDRW
• Then hit an icon on the desktop or start menu.
• The directory structure under cdburn is zipped up and FTP'd over to the linux box.
• The Linux server has an inittab script that checks every 10 seconds for new iso images in the upload directory.
• It moves the file to a work area, unzips it and makes an iso image of it, then moves it to a directory mounted on the thin client.
• The thin client has a screen script that checks every 10 seconds for a new iso image file with the same name as the workstation
• It runs cdrecord to burn the cd if there's a file. It then ejects the disk.

It burns the CD's at 12x so it will take about 20 minutes to burn a full CD.

-- MischkO - 24 May 2005

• cdrecord.tgz: cdrtools package and packages.list

• steps_to_cdburn.txt: Detailed instructions to set up local cd burning