I have downloaded the iso image of e-Smith and I am not attempting to burn it 
to a CD.
First tries were from X-CDRoasr. 
For a lot of reasons that did not work.
Next I tried the using the command line.
Yolinux gives the following example in its HOWTOs.
EXAMPLES
If you download an ISO CD image from the net (i.e. a Linux CD) or posses a CD 
you wish to copy: 
 Copy a data CD: (fast) 
 cat /dev/scd0 > RedHat-7.0-i386-powertools.iso 
 Burn ISO image onto CD: 
 cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,4,0 RedHat-7.0-i386-powertools.iso 
So I tried the following as ROOT.
 cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,4,0 e-smith-4.1.2.iso 
I received the following error messages:
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Can not open SCSI device.
cdrecord: For possible targets try cdrecord -scanbus.   Make sure you are 
root.
Hopefully somebody has a few positive suggestions.
By the way when and where did you say that newbie class would be?
Thanks
Frank
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