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pkd_lives:
Is not on my computeer anymore. Well technically it is, but what happens is a black screen starts up when I select it and in white text the message Loading Windows appears. My hardrive seems to be permanently addressed and nothing else happens.

Now last night I figured out CDrecord (or rather the X-cd-roast graphical face anyway). Which meant that only one item on my must be able to do list is uncompleted. I want Linux so I can do other stuff without paying thousands of dollars for something I used to be able to do as part of the operating system (programming for instance).

So the only thing I can't do is scanning, and I am going to find a Linux compatable scanner, and I'm in no rush, as I don't use scanning much. So I'm gonna run Diskdrake and remove the fat partition. I think I can say I'm Linux now. Not claiming to know anything about it yet (but then what did I ever know about Windows from official courses?)

To anyone else considering the switch...It is really easy with the Noob distros. Just remember how you learnt Windows. You kept doing stuff until it crashed again, and learnt your lessons. I lost count of how many times I've installed Windows over the years, always learnt something new, well Linux is like that too, just a slightly steeper learning curve.

[ October 08, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]

voidmain:
Speaking of CD burning, have you tried "koncd"? It's a new command in KDE 3.x (you can use it under gnome as well if it is installed). I personally haven't because I like plain old "cdrecord" on the command line or a script that I have written that uses "cdrecord". I just ran "koncd" and it looks pretty cool. Haven't tried to burn anything with it.

Pantso:
I've tried koncd in KDE 3.0 I think to burn some CD's. Cool little app and very stable but I liked cdrecord more. Everything works faster when you know how to use the console    

[ October 08, 2002: Message edited by: Panos ]

pkd_lives:
Wohoa there.

Hey I'm just figuring this stuff out. I got cdrecord under GUI configured.

Now I can do the stuff I did on windows (mostly), I can now start to LEARN my OS.

Ice-9:

quote: Speaking of CD burning, have you tried "koncd"? It's a new command in KDE 3.x (you can use it under gnome as well if it is installed). I personally haven't because I like plain old "cdrecord" on the command line or a script that I have written that uses "cdrecord". I just ran "koncd" and it looks pretty cool. Haven't tried to burn anything with it.
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void main, have you tried it under SuSE?
Xcdroast works fine (except that the version I have doesn't support multisession) but I never could make Koncd work, I get "mkisoff not installed" while it is installed, 100% sure since I checked 3 times for the packages.

[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: Ice9 ]

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