LINUX CD Burner

Murdock

I have a CD Burner on my machine but the directory is locked!!!

Anyone know how do I go about unlocking it?

Typedef

Briefly.

Compile a kernel with loadable modules, scsi emulation and scsi-cdrom support, do not load the ide-cdrom module, once you have the scsi and scsi only modules installed run

scsi-scanbus and watch as it finds your cdrw - rejoice in this next run x-cdroast and rejoice in the burning of many many cdroms, rejoice, yayyy

or something.

Murdock

Dude.....

U lost me after two words!!!!

Is there any simpler way??

If not, how does one do all that stuff you just said??

sisob

Originally posted by Murdock
the directory is locked!!!

what exactly do you mean by locked? what distribution are you using? what desktop?

Baz_

if you mean you cant access a data cd thats in the bay, then you have to mount the drive. Basically what this does is gives you read only access AFAIK. Also I forget the command, but if it is what you mean then respond in the affirmative and some other helpful soul will give it to you.

Murdock

I'm using the Mandrake 8.2 Beta distribution.

what exactly do you mean by locked?

Not to sound rude, The directory has a big padlock on it and when I try to either access it or write to the CD it tells me basically that I don't have correct privilages to do so!!!

moist

Originally posted by Murdock

Not to sound rude, The directory has a big padlock on it and when I try to either access it or write to the CD it tells me basically that I don't have correct privilages to do so!!!

*sigh*

Sounds like a permission problem,
from console/command line to an ls of the directory.
You should see something like this...

fred (~) $ ls -ld /cdrom
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Aug  4  2001 /cdrom

Linux doesn't generally automatically mount CD's when you put them in
you have to do it yourself...
as root try something like this...

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom

The _directory_ /cdrom has to exist for that to work, if not, use the following (as root) to create it...

mkdir /cdrom

If I have lost you with the above, you should really do a bit of homework first,
read ch18 of UNIX Unleashed-
In fact read the whole book


<rant>
Was going to point him at the SAG, but someone forgot to pay for linuxdoc.org
so now the LDP is broken...
*giggle*
</rant>

sisob

8.2 should automatically mount the cd's

the gui way to do it is to log in as root.

then goto /mnt/cdrom and right click -> properties and change the permission

logic1

Originally posted by sisob


then goto /mnt/cdrom and right click -> properties and change the permission

Jesus all this right clicking scares me.

.logic.

Lemming

Originally posted by Typedef
Briefly.

Compile a kernel

Typedef

What?