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Problems installing Kopete on Mandrake 9.2! HELP!

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enjoijeff:
whoa dude you're from Kansas City? lol me too!

enjoijeff:
cdrecord
cdrecord: No CD/DVD-Recorder device specified.
Usage: cdrecord [options] track1...trackn

Use     cdrecord -help
to get a list of valid options.

Use     cdrecord blank=help
to get a list of valid blanking options.

Use     cdrecord dev=b,t,l driveropts=help -checkdrive
to get a list of drive specific options.

Use     cdrecord dev=help
to get a list of possible SCSI transport specifiers.


so... when i do get some CD-Rs how do I use this? Like step-by-step... Sorry I sound stupid but whatever.

[ December 12, 2003: Message edited by: enjoijeff ]

flap:
Run
cdrecord -scanbus
and look at the output. You should see a line that describes your cd burner, with three comma separated digits at the beginning of the line.

Now just burn the iso with
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -data imagefile.iso

Replace the 'speed' setting with whatever speed you want to burn at, and replace the 3 dev numbers with whatever three digits you had returned with -scanbus.

enjoijeff:
0,0,0     0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'CD-RW GCE-8400B ' '1.05' Removable CD-ROM


So does that mean just leave it be?

cdrecord: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track.
cdrecord: This means that we are checking recorded media.
cdrecord: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore.
cdrecord: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank the media first.
cdrecord: Cannot get next writable address.
Writing  time:    4.172s
Average write speed 999.0x.
Fixating...
Fixating time:    0.001s
cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.

And does that mean that it's not writable because it's been written on already?

Sorry, I'm just trying to make sure that once I do get disks it's actually going to write cos I don't want to just have to throw them away...

[ December 12, 2003: Message edited by: enjoijeff ]

flap:
Yes, just use the exact command I suggested (though you can set the speed to whatever you like/your drive supports).

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