The best and easiest (it's entirely graphical!) way to give user access to a
burner, IMHO, is to use userdrake to add your user to the "cdwriter" group.
As for burning software, have your tried X-CD-Roast? Burning software in
GNU/Linux is currently designed for functionality rather than for
user-friendliness. Once you're used to them (it shouldn't take long), they
are very quick and easy to use. Apps like Roxio's Easy CD Creator may be easy
for newbies, but they are also huge, bloated apps (Easy CD Creator 4 is about
70MB) that are actually _less_ functional than their nimble (Gcombust is
about 700KB) *nix counterparts. For example, my Iomega ZipCD drive (32x read,
8x write, 4x rewrite) can burn at a maximum of 2x in Windos 98 and 2000 using
both Easy CD Creator (which came with the drive) and Nero 5. In GNU/Linux,
using frontends to cdrecord like Gcombust, X-CD-Roast and Gtoaster, I can
burn at a full 8x without errors.
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:18, Michael Spivak wrote:
> Hi
>
> I had exactly the same problem, untill i discovered something nice :
>
> To use the CDR/W you should have root permissions !!
> To avoid it you should do next steps :
> 1. Open the LinuxConf as root and go to the Users menu
> 2. Make yourself a part of a 'Root' group (and not yours as by default)
> 3. Open the console, su, then go to /usr/bin
> 4. Type : chmod 775 cdrecord, then chmod 775 cdda2wav
> 5. Open the GToaster, go to the configuration and scan the bus
>
> Voualla - you see your CDR
>
> Then, you should go and play with the application to see what options
> are necessery for you, but be sure you check the 'Lock CD' - i never
> success to burn any CD without locking it.
>
> This what helped me, and i hope it will help you too
>
>
> *******************
> Michael Spivak
> *******************
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Rigby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8:04 AM
> To: Paul; Newbie
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Getting the basics going
>
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:44, you manipulated electrons to produce:
> > > 3. Cannot figure out how to operate CDRW Writer! ( M8 knows it's
> > > there, but I'm only allowed one CD - I have 2, both identified)
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Linux treats CD-writers as SCSI devices. Since most modern CD-RW's
> > are IDE, there's some work to be done. (MDK 8 did it all by itself
> > for me though.)
>
> Hi Paul,
> Thanks 4 the help!
>
> As I said though, M8 knows they are there, I can even access either
> one - PROVIDED I delete the other off the desktop first. ????????
> It simply will not allow two cdroms on the desktop at once.
> ( Remember I am gui-oriented)
>
> The other point was that there are two supplied CD burner progs:
> Gcombust and Gtoaster from initial install. Both are less than
> intuitive!! I came from good ol' EasyCD point and click!
> No average user would have a hope with either of them.
> I'm looking for a more friendly one.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
