Re: CD/CDR Operation

Andrew

Again. to actually burn data CDs you do NOT mount the blank CD .. if you have
your system set up to mount any CD you place in the drive, then unmount the
CD prior to trying to burn it.

Use k3b (or whatever you like, k3b is just *my* preference) and the
application should detect both the appropriate device to use, and the fact
that there is a blank CD in the drive.

You can then select the files/data you want to burn onto the CD, and hit GO.

Mounting a disk is only useful when the CD already contains a valid
filesystem, which will only be after the CD has been written. Likewise,
music tracks aren't written on a CD as a file-system, but as discrete tracks.

If you downloaded a rescue disk you probably downloaded an ISO image .. that
needs to be burnt to the CD as an image, not as data. An ISO file contains a
'snapshot' of the contents of a disk.

Writing an ISO image to a disk is analagous to printing a fax (which is stored
on a computer as an image file), whereas writing the data contained in the
ISO image is closer to converting the fax to a standard text file first, then
printing the file. Doing the latter, you disturb the layout of the data in
the ISO image, and incidentally lose some of the information, because not all
the information in the ISO image can be successfully converted to files.

TD

On Friday 03 Feb 2006 16:48, Andrew Pickens wrote:
Thank you. That is helpful, but my real interest is in making data CDs,
e.g. a downloaded rescue disc.

Andy Pickens

Peter Gordon wrote:
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 13:40 -0600, Andy Pickens wrote:
I have Fedora 4, Thunderbird, and Firefox working pretty well, except
for the CDs. if I try to mount a music CD on the CD reader, or a blank
CD on the CDR drive, I get the message:

"Could not determine filesystem type, and none was specified."

Audio CDs do not have filesystems (just the raw audio track data), so
you cannot mount them. Please try gnome-cd (part of the gnome-media
package). That will allow you to play the audio CD. You can rip the
audio data to your hard disk using sound-juicer (assuming that it is
legal for you to do that, of course).

These are just two of the many CD playing/ripping applications available
to choose from. A search via Yum should turn up many more should you
want to look at those, as well.

Hope that helps!

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