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creedon:

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0b:
that would be cdrecord it is a frontend for. But some like Gcombust are also frontends for mkisofs, cdlabelgen, diff, cdda2wav, cdparanoia, lpr.

DAMMIT, i just spilled hot chocolate on myself.
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OOWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!  
Yeah, you're right, but cdrecord is the best, and easiest , of the bunch.  (HMMMM....cdrecord, I must remember that.....what were we talking about again?)

voidmain:
But the thing is, if he installed the RPM it should not have let him install it without the cdrtools prereqs. Unless he forced it with a "--nodeps" which would not have been a good idea. When I installed Red Hat 8 I recall everything being installed from the beginning. I didn't have to do anything other than click on it on the menu at which point it told me I had to run it as root because it was the first run. So I did and it just worked. I have upgraded it from the xcdroast website since that time and used the new cdrtools packages also from xcdroast web site.

[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

dishawjp:
Hi All,

I've been looking at your comments and hammering away at this computer for a good part of the afternoon.  I think that I have XCDroast about ready to run.  I haven't actually burned a CD yet, but it finally recognizes both the source and target drives and can read the tracks on the source drive.

I did download all the cdtools .rpm files the other day, I had logged in as root to start things, had edited my /boot/grub/menu.lst file for SCSI emulation, created the necessary symbolic links and all that. It just wouldn't run :-(

Now I've been screwing with other things, dunno what I actually did to make it work... but it looks like it's gonna run.  Maybe the difference is that today I'm drinking some good Dutch beer (Christoffel Blond) that my daughter brought me back from Holland and not Canadian beer :)

I doubt that this could have done it, but among other things, I did download and install the updated kernel from Red Hat (vmlinuz-2.4.18-19.8.0) .  That caused much unhappiness and I had to go back to the earlier one (vmlinuz-2.4.18-14).  I'm starting to feel like I can hose just about anything :)

MoR/Bob... stick to cold beverages... they're a LOT safer :)

Creedon... I looked at the man page for cdrecord and it really does look to be a lot more my style.  I'll be giving that a much closer look soon.  I think I'll just take it a bit easy on this thing for the rest of the night and see if I can avoid doing any serious damage to it.

Quick question... All I did to avoid booting to the new kernel was remove references to it in the  grub menu.lst file.  Should I uninstall it?  If so would the best way be to use rpm or should I just leave well enough alone?  Everything seems to be working pretty well now.

Thanks again to all!

Jim

voidmain:
You can leave the new kernel in there, it won't hurt anything, it just won't get used. I have a feeling you upgraded the new kernel and then X didn't work because you have it set to the nVidia drivers and were lost because you didn't have X. Am I correct?  When you install a new kernel you either have to revert your XF86Config to use "nv" as the driver or install the nVidia drivers for that exact kernel before booting the new kernel. I always upgrade the kernel, reboot and then install the nVidia drivers from a virtual terminal. Then start X.

And here's my script I use for burning ISOs using cdrecord:

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This will run cdrecord in the background. To watch its progress just do a "tail -f /tmp/mkcd.log". Note you will have to add your logon ID to the "cdrecording" group in order to run it under your userid. Or you can run it as root or do a "# chmod +s /usr/bin/cdrecord" but I don't suggest doing that.

To create an ISO from a CD you can just do:

$ cat /dev/cdrom1 > cdimage.iso

or

$ dd if=/dev/cdrom1 of=cdimage.iso

But for ripping audio CDs and creating a new audio CD from a mix of the resulting wav files Xcdroast is the way to go. It will not automatically convert ripped files to MP3 or OGG (yet) like other ripping utilities.

[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

dishawjp:
void main,

As usual you are right.  When I started Xwindows bad things happened and I got nervous and bailed on the new kernel.  It must have been the NVidia drivers.

It may be a while before I get to do any serious playing around with it (holidays and all) but when I have some time, I'll download the NVidia drivers for the new kernel and then give it another go.  Sort of the same with the CD burner.  I'll paly with the command line interface and the GUI and decide which works better for me.

Thanks to all for your advice and assistance!

Jim

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