On Sat, October 20, 2007 10:24 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On 10/20/07, rbw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What I find weird is the absolute conclusive
>> confidence of the web sites I searched that with
>> a drive that has DVD-R/RAM capabilities that the
>> below CLI will work.
>> My circumstances can't possibly be THAT special...
>> What in the world could I be missing??
>>
>> BTW burning CD's is no problem at all...
>>
>
> Have you looked at the date of the information supplied by those web
> sites?  As far as I know, the functions of growisofs and cdrecord have
> been merged into a package "cdrtools", by everyone's favorite author
> Joerg Schilling.
>
> Schilling-haters have produced another set of software for cd/dvd
> creation, instantaneously I can't find it.
>
> Possibly related:  what is the group of the CD/DVD writer?  Most
> likely "disk".  Do you rbw or lbarnes belong to group disk?
>

I know this is going to bring down an avalanche of calumny on my ignorant
head, but I usually make my cdrom device 777. 9 times out of 10 it's R/O,
and the tenth time, what am I risking, that someone will own a user
account on the box just in time to ruin a $.35 blank? BFD.

> If you want a copy of KNOPPIX_V5.1.1DVD-2007-01-04-EN.iso I have one
> or two, and could make more.  Of course this does not solve the
> problem of burning your own.
>

No, but it could debug whether it's a HW problem.

I could go for one of those. Also (separate post) FC7 i386.

-- 
Lan Barnes

SCM Analyst              Linux Guy
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast        Biodiesel Brewer


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