On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 13:50 +0200, Bj�rn Lundin wrote: > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > On Sunday 26 September 2004 10:17, john wrote: > >> Hello > >> I will be using cdrw media in upcoming work to transfer files between > >> work and home and also use for backup. In winblows, it was a matter of > >> "save as" and indicate cd. I have not used win for about a year now and > >> don't intend to. Would appreciate some advice on which application would > >> be simplest to setup and use or point me in the right direction for > >> info. I have tried k3b, eroaster, and nautilus without much success. My > >> lack of experience in setup is probably the real issue. Thanks in > >> advance. John > > > > John what exactly are your problems? > > I myself used Nautilus on a laptop and K3B on my desktop. Both are > > "no-brainers" to install as one uses "urpmi" to do that correctly. > > > > Neither of them require any special setup as they probe for CD drives > > themselves. If your drive isn't found, there might some other problem with > > your hardware. > > > > Nautilus offers the option "burn to CD" when right-clicking an a file and > > K3B > > supports drag & drop very well IMO. > I think he's after UDF writing. I'm not sure if that's supported at in > Linux. Some googling only gives dead projects, but no valuable info. I'd go > with a usb-stick instead, if moving data between machines is the primary > reason, and burning to an cd-r/dvd with k3b for backup > /Bj�rn >
Surely UDF isn't required? Cds are written to iso9660 standard, readable by anything - a disk burnt under k3b will be read by a Windows box, and a Nero-burnt disk read under linux. However, there are UDF tools at http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux- udf/ pm
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