your distribution should hodl the following programs or a subset of them: mkisofs or mkhybrid for making disk-images cdrecord or cdwrite to burn them cdrdao to burn audio-disks If it is a scsi-drive you need scsi-cdrom support in yoru kernel, if it is a ide-drive you have automagical support for it, but check your kernel-documentation or the cd-writing-howto from http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTOS/ for more details about burning under linux. -- slainte mhaith (good health), slainte (cheers) Uisce Beatha (water of live/health) ----------- Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ Utrecht University irc: see webpage for details ----------- Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen!