Re: Any working CDWriter software available?

From: brian (brian_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 04/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:35:42 -0500

use k3b works wonders
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:10:24 +0000, J.Neuhoff wrote:

> Am I the only one unable to use the any of Red Hat Fedora's CD Writer
> software for creating a simple data CD?
>
> I tried the following GUI tools from the 'System Tools':
>
> - X-CD-Roast 0.98
> Totally useless user interface, should be thrown into the trash bin.
>
> - Gnome Toaster 1.0beta
> Has nice working drag & drop interface,
> scans and recognises my
> ''SAMSUNG ' 'CDRW/DVD SM-332B' 'T400' Removable CD-ROM'
> just fine, however:
> The 'CDRecord' function does absolutely nothing, no error messages, no a
> single log entry. Hence, again it is totally useless.
>
>
>
> Finally I successfully wrote my data CD using the following simply command
> prompts:
>
> $ mkisofs -r -o /home/juergen/mdb.iso /home/juergen/iso
> $ cdrecord -scanbus
> $ su
> # cdrecord -v speed=10 dev=0,0,0 /home/juergen/mdb.iso
>
>
>
> This proves that writing a data CD is no rocket science! Hence I am quite
> amazed why Red Hat in all those years hasn't managed to include any working
> CD writing GUI tools in its distribution.
>
> All the user should have to do is drag and drop his selected folders and
> files into the /mnt/cdrom and then hit a 'CD Write' button. Anyone out with
> such a tool?
>
> Juergen

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