[expert] CDRW Drive Addition

2001-06-10 Thread Caleb Newville
Hello! I have been running my copy of mandrake for a couple of months, and just picked up a Memorex CRW-1622 cd writer for this machine. I plugged it in and can use it as a cd reader, but I'm clueless as to how to setup the SCSI emulation, etc. Is there a tutorial or doc out there that explain

Re: [expert] CDRW Drive Addition

2001-06-10 Thread Oscar
El Dom 10 Jun 2001 21:30, escribiste: > Hello! > > I have been running my copy of mandrake for a couple of months, and just > picked up a Memorex CRW-1622 cd writer for this machine. > > I plugged it in and can use it as a cd reader, but I'm clueless as to how > to setup the SCSI emulation, etc.

Re: [expert] CDRW Drive Addition

2001-06-10 Thread Caleb Newville
Ok, so I have the SCSI emulation working, and HardDrake confirms that. I would now like to know a good piece of burn software (KDE prefered). Thanks, Caleb Newville Oscar writes: > Suppose the CDRW is /dev/hdb > then, edit lilo.conf and under "image=/boot/vmlinuz" you must add the option > a

Re: [expert] CDRW Drive Addition

2001-06-11 Thread Ron Stodden
Caleb Newville wrote: > > Ok, so I have the SCSI emulation working, and HardDrake confirms that. > I would now like to know a good piece of burn software (KDE prefered). cdrecord is in Mandrake 8.0 and is very easy to use from the command line (always use -v). You must be root. Run cdrecord -

Re: [expert] CDRW Drive Addition

2001-06-11 Thread Nick Thompson
cdrecord checks access permissions against the users login before giving access to files, not relying solely on the OS to do this. It is therefore okay to make it SUID root. Once you do that you don't need root access to burn CDs. The GUIs do work of course, but it maybe true that some are better

Re: [expert] CDRW Drive Addition

2001-06-11 Thread Ron Stodden
Nick Thompson wrote: > > cdrecord checks access permissions against the users login before giving > access to files, not relying solely on the OS to do this. It is therefore > okay to make it SUID root. Once you do that you don't need root access to > burn CDs. Thanks. > The GUIs do work of cou

Re: [expert] CDRW Drive Addition

2001-06-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 11 June 2001 07:38 am, Ron Stodden wrote: > Yes, but kisocd (or kisocdII) have disappeared from Mandrake 8.0 As > I stated, I found the rest of the GUI burners effectively incompetent > and useless for the simple things I wanted to do. Yes, every one!    Well, I'll havt'a try KisoC

Re: [expert] CDRW Drive Addition

2001-06-11 Thread Caleb Newville
OK, I downloaded and compiled KOnCD, and it appears to be doign it's job, but cdrecord is not, I get this output both via command line and KOnCD. Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling