On Wednesday 11 May 2005 04:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 20:34, Aidan Holmes wrote:
Nicole Lewis wrote:
Wanting to keep things simple, I have tried to save files onto CD & DVD by dragging the file icon onto the cdrom window. Get a message " Konqueror could not write to /mnt/cdrom/filename The burner is a Pioneer DVD 109.
I find that K3B is very easy to use for burning cd's. Uses drag'n'drop but not into a konqueror window, still well worth a look. If you really want to just drag into the stardard file browser window, I think you can do this with gnome.... not 100% sure though. Aidan.
If Nicole is thinking of drag'n'drop in the context of Nero's InCD, it isn't supported in Linux, or at least is only partially supported. K3b will do multisession burns, and that's probably the best answer, although I think that using CD-RW disks with multisession is problematic. Perhaps someone could comment on that?
My guess here would be that she is thinking of burning the way Windows XP has built in support. So, you drag and drop on to the CD icon and XP builds an ISO image on the fly. Once you have enough files, you can trigger the burn and it burns the ISO on to the disk. I don't know of any app in Linux that supports that type of functionality although I don't think that it would be that hard to build something of that nature.
Multisession CD's, regardless of media are problematic for normal CD-ROMS which won't be able to read anything on the disk until it has been finalized and the TOC has been built. CD burners, as I understand it, can see all but the last session burned to the disk prior to it being finalized. I don't have a tremendous about of experience with those as I tend to wait until I am going to burn the entire disk before making one.
Yes, Bryan, broadly correct. In my simple-minded approach, I was hoping for something like what was once possible with a floppy disk, where one could individually back up recently written or downloaded files.
Looking at K3b, it seems that it does not give access to HDa1 ; so if I want to avoid the eccenticities of Nero, then the files should first be copied from HDa1 to my Home folder in the Linux partition ?
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