Anybody ever use gnometoster to copy a cd? 1

[Redbird400]

My windows 98 cd is pretty scratched up and I need to make another disk. Cant seem to get this gnometoster to work. It came with redhat 8.0

 

[krale]

There's a bunch of stupid crap you need to set up for Linux CD burning...It took me a while to figure it out myself.

1: Check what Drive the CD writer is on (/dev/hda, /dev/hdb...). If you have multiple drives, make a note of them. If the drives are scsi (you'd know), you dont have to worry about anything, as it's already set up.

2: Say that your CDwriter is on /dev/hdc and your DVD rom is on /dev/hdd (that's my config). If you run LiLo boot manager, put:
APPEND = "hdc=ide-scsi" "hdd=ide-scsi"
That will initalize your drives as scsi drives.

3: Now you need the driver to use them. run a "modprobe ide-scsi" or put them into your /etc/modules.conf listing .

4: Now you need to change /etc/fstab to reflect your new drive names. Chances are the 1'st drive is now /dev/sr0 and the 2'nd drive is /dev/sr1 . Update the fstab file to reflect the changes.

5: If you want cd-burning groups, change the group on the burner to allow Read-Write-Exec on owner and group. Then create a group and add users for that.

6: I use xcdroast which handles most permission problems. I've never used Gnomeburn. Xcdroast makes ISO's, rips and burns. that = happy ;-)

 

[wmg]

Thanks for that Krale - do you know what options to use in the case of GRUB being used?

Thanks!

wmg We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. [Robert Wilensky, 1997]

 

[krale]

I found a site

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/install-guide/s1-trouble-after.html

on RedHat that explains the procedure. You will have to find the grub.conf file. Of what the site said, it's /boot/grub.conf

Here's the rough syntax of the grub "append line"
.......

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.6-2) #(this's the title)
root (hd0,0) # some new syntax
kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.6-2 ro root=/dev/hda3
append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"

Still, I use Debian, so I'm stuck happily with lilo.Still, most everything else distro-independant.

 

[Redbird400]

Well I just ended up installing and running xcdroast. There just seemed to be something missing in gnometoster.

 

[krale]

That's good ;-) Xcdroast is kinda.. quirky. When you do create your directories for cd-burn path, make a directory (perferrably in /tmp) that references all your media points. It doesnt like multiple directories on that same path.

Still, I've found that Xcdroast does all I need it to do, and more. Checking the ATip info is also a neat function to tell how good your cd's are and who made them.

All in all, a great program.

 

[CaKiwi]

I am using Mandrake 9.0 and xcdroast does not recognize
my cd reader so I cannot copy cd's. I can use the cd reader
fine with any other application and the cd writer can
create cd's by copting files from disk. My cd reader is
a slave on the primary IDE channel and my cd writer is
the master on the secondary IDE channel. I have changed
the line

append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"

in the lilo.conf file to

append="quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi"

I assume I need to change /dev/hdb on the line

none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

in my fstab file but I am not sure what to. I tried /dev/scd1 but it
didn't help. The corresponding line in fstab for the cdwriter is

none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

Any help would be greatly appreciated. CaKiwi

 

[paleogryph]

Funny you should ask.

I just used the GnomeToaster that comes with RH 8.0.
Its goofy, just like most Linux apps.
I finally figured out how to burn/copy cds with it.
Its a hassle.

Weird thing is, neither my cdrom (/dev/hdc) or my Sony USB burner (/dev/scd0) are mounted when the burning starts. Apparently the "cdrecord" app mounts and umounts on its own.

Another anomaly:
I burned a copy of a photoshop cd, didn't make any changes to the "file system" setting, just burned it. Then after burning, tried to install PS from it on a Win machine, worked no problem.
Did the same thing with a dreamweaver cd, and when I tried to install it on a Win machine, the install .exe would just bring up a dos box then go away. The original DW cd installs fine...