On Wednesday 05 June 2002 01:41 pm, Heather Reed wrote:
> Hi all
> I have just installed xcdroast (together with cdrecord). When I try to open
> it, I get a message telling me to configure as root, but no info as to what
> to configure where or how. I can't seem to get to a help file though, and
> am totally confused :-(( I have looked at various howtos on the net, but
> they are way above me I'm afraid. Can anyone out there give me, or point me
> to and idiots guide (and believe me, in this I am an idiot :-))? I am
> running 8.2, and have a memorex IDE rewriter installed, which is being
> picked up by harddrake OK. it is my only CD drive, and I hate having to
> reboot into windows (grrrrr) to burn CDs. Alternatively, a pointer to other
> CD burner apps that might do the job as well and be easier to get going (if
> such things exist) would do just as well. Any help would be gratefully
> received.
> Ta muchly
> Heather
Heather, XCDroast is just one of many front-ends to cdrecord, which is the
app doing the real burning. Others are Gcombust, Kreatecd, Koncd etc. etc...
Those frontends are like mazes, but in the end youll find your way...
Actually, it's not very hard to use cdrecord-commands, take a look at the
man-page....
One important thing, though : all IDE burners must be "faked" to the kernel
as SCSI-ones. (And it doesn't harm to do the same thing to the CD-reader as
well). To do that, you must add an append-statement to /etc/lilo.conf, like
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" hdx=ide-scsi devfs=mount "
vga=791
read-only
where x in the append-stanza is your actual IDE-drive, in my example hdc is
the "master" on the second IDE-bus.
Then, save the file, and run "lilo'" as root. Finally, run : cdrecord
--scanbus to see if the burner is there.
HTH
Kaj Haulrich
Denmark
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