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Topic: CD Burner App, "How To Use" Please

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Ray2047

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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,00:35

I have DSL installed on my hard drive. I'm trying to burn an ISO I downloaded. I have tried to figure out how to use the included CD Burner but just can't figure it out. Do you double click functions? Tried that. Do you highlight function and click Enter? Tried that.

How do you get files in it. I see the add file box but how? If drag and drop how do you get to the file to drag it? Is there a tutorial you can point me to or an easier to use one I can install you can point me to. (Not even sure of it's name so I couldn't Google it before posting.)

Slightly off issue but when I downloaded the file to desktop using Firefox it doesn't actually show on desktop hence the how to drag and drop question if indeed that is how you add files. I did find it using Find.

Please assume newbie when answering. Thanks in Advance.

mikshaw

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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,02:57

cdw is a console frontend for cdparanoia/mkisofs. This means that there is no drag-and-drop. I've never used it, and the man page says nothing about how to use it, so i can only say that most features are probably accessed via the keyboard...arrows and tab to navigate, and enter to activate. spacebar most likely toggles selections.

You might try googling "man cdrecord", or try the gcombust mydsl extension if the curses applications don't do it for you.

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

Ray2047

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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,04:16

Thanks. I will try your suggestions.

cbagger01

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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,17:31

gcombust is a very small download and it works great.

For cdw, you need to do two things:

(1) Enter your cd burner drive's address into the cdw setup page.

Before starting cdw, open a terminal window and type:

cdrecord -scanbus

or

cdrecord -scanbus | more

to learn the address.

(2) To burn an iso, you can replace the image file location, which is normally some file in the "/tmp" directory, with the location of your ISO file, IE:

/home/dsl/myiso.iso

Then create cd or burn cd whatever the command is on the screen.