- Running K3b
- More About Using K3b
- K3b Information and Help
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
More About Using K3b
When using Reusable (Rewritable) CDs, K3b will automatically "blank" them—that is, remove what you had on them before—but will ask you to confirm this action first so you don't delete important material by mistake.
Copying CDs is self-explanatory; just step through the processes as they come up, following the onscreen instructions.
Making or copying DVDs is the same as working with CDs, except you must have a DVD burner and not just a CD burner to use this feature.
Burning ISO images from which your computer can boot directly (like the SimplyMEPIS CD in this book) requires a slightly different procedure. Select "Tools," then "CD," then "Burn CD Image." (Or if you have a DVD-write drive, you can burn a bootable DVD instead by clicking "DVD" instead of "CD." After that, select the ISO image you want to put on CD or DVD, and you will get a special screen for ISO burning.)
The built-in K3b "Help" file is surprisingly good. It contains most of the information you'll ever need for daily K3b use. We suggest playing with a rewritable CD for your first experiments, because no matter how good your burning software may be (and K3b is very good indeed) a single wrong move, especially when burning a bootable CD, can leave you with a useless plastic "coaster" instead of correctly stored data. Even though rewritable CDs cost more than "single write" recordable CDs, it is worth the few extra bucks to have some around for testing—and if you regularly back up your most important data on CD (as everyone should but few do), you can reuse a single rewritable CD over and over for your most current information instead of accumulating a stack of CDs with old data on them.
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