Hi Jerry, I don't have any easy solutions, except to suggest not to use UDF. In my experience with UDF (in Win 98), I found it rather slow and unreliable (it ruined several CD-R's on me). I dunno if this is the standard experience, but I've found it much easier to just use Easy CD Creator to create a normal CD. I believe there are many good GUI apps to do this kind of thing for you. Another not-quite-elegant solution would be to take an old PC you own (P150 or better, I'd say), and install the CD-RW on it. Then install Windows 9x, and DirectCD. Finally network it with you main Linux box, and use samba to write to the CD - I think that would work. It might also just pay to sit it out, Linux is gaining support rapidly right now, I can't imagine it being long before it supports UDF in the normal kernel. Finally, you might do a search on Freshmeat to see if there are any UDF writting apps. Perhaps you could find something that might not mount it like a floppy, but would let you easily add and remove files in a file manager-like interface. -Tim On Monday 30 April 2001 08:43 pm, you wrote:
Well, I have finally gotten to the place where I am frustrated with Linux. Why? Because, a couple of weeks ago I purchased a CDRW drive. The MAIN reason I purchased it was to store all of the Linux stuff I download off of the internet. Well, after getting it installed and functioning, I set about to learn how to use it (burn CDs). I learned how to use mkisofs and cdrecord, and Xcdroast. (I also have Win Me installed on my machine.) Adaptec Easy CD Creator and Direct CD came with my drive, and with Direct Cd I can format a CD in UDF format and write/read/erase files to a CDRW disc with no problems. I thought, cool, this is what I want to do in Linux. When I set about to learn how to do this in Linux, I was very disappointed to learn that UDF is at best a kernel patch to get it functioning. Yes, I know read support is in the kernel options, if I want to recompile the kernel, but not write support. I want to use my CDRW like a big floppy, but I can't in Linux. I want to USE Linux, not spend all of my time hacking it or recompiling the kernel. I am an end user, not a hacker. I have real work to get done and I'd LIKE to use Linux to get that work done. Sorry, but I have to use what works without having to spend a lot of time getting it working. I have been using Linux now for about one year, and have come to love it. However, this is a very frustrating roadblock for me. Unless someone can show me how to use my CDRW store/read/write/erase individual files onto my CDRW disks easily (Like DirectCD does in Windows Me)I may have to abandom Linux for the time being. I don't know anything about UDF, or how long the tecnology has been released, but I would think the Linux community would have better support for it than it does buy this time.
Please help me stay with the Penguin,
jvb
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