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⁠4.3.4. Burning discs with wodim from the command line

wodim is a command line tool that makes burning iso files to disc easy. These instructions will help you to burn a disc when a Graphical User Interface is not available.
  1. Install wodim with the command su -c 'yum install wodim'
  2. Locate your cdrom drives location with wodim --devices. This should give something like the following: 
    [zoglesby@zlaptop ~]$ wodim --devices 
wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) :
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0  dev='/dev/scd0'	rwrw-- : 'TSSTcorp' 'DVD+-RW TS-T633C'
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  3. Using the output from above identify your drive location. In this example it would be /dev/scd0, and issue the following command to burn the cd.
    wodim -v dev=/dev/xxx speed=4 -eject /path/to/Fedora.iso.

    Replace values

    Be sure to replace the dev=/dev/xxx with your drive path, and /path/to/Fedora.iso to the actual path and name of the ISO file.