with a cdrw disk in the windows world you do have drag an drop but only on the cdrw disk not cdr. jack

Drag drop won't do it. A CDROM needs all files to be burnt to it in a single session, or batches of files in a multisession disk (software option).

There are quite a few software packages available in Linux to put files on CDROMs. My personal preference is XCDRoast... mostly because it has been very reliable, and I don't need to do any fiddling to make it work. It just worked out of the box with SuSE7.3 and 8.0.

By the way, it's not a dumb question if you have never used a CD-RW before.

Take a look at: http://searchStorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci507077,00.html

C.

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On Sunday 01 September 2002 14:39, Joe & Sesil Morris (NTM) wrote:

Jack Malone wrote:

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with a cdrw disk in the windows world you do have drag an drop but only on the cdrw disk not cdr.

Actually, even in Windows, drag & drop doesn't work with a CDR or CDRW without packet writing software, such as DirectCD, InCD, etc. XCDRoast's newest version does multisession writing, so I am happy (just wish SuSE made the rpm).

FWIW I,ve used directcd quite a lot but I wouldn't use it for anything crucial as most discs I've created that way have eventually failed after having been written to a few times. Otheres mileage may vary of course. Mike

In article <200209010723.34650.c.cornell@chello.nl>, Clayton Cornell wrote:

On Saturday 01 September 2029 21:56, dh wrote:

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I'm considering getting one of these beasts and am unsure of their potential. What I really want to know is... Is it possible to drag and drop files using konqueror (or others) directly onto the cd for copying from harddisk or do you need to use specific progs for this functionality? Drag drop won't do it.

Does here. You need to make your own kernel with the packet writing patches from http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/ There is a mailing list, see http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/private/support/mailinglists/index.html Nik

In article <200209012043.07961.c.cornell@chello.nl>, Clayton Cornell wrote:

Hmmm I learn something new every day. I didn't even know this was possible from Windows. I never use Windows (not even at work), and never went looking for this as a feature in Linux.

So, you patch your kernel, not too hard to do... but how reliable/stable is this?

I have used it extensively with kernel 2.4.18 and had no problems, but not everyone has had the same experiences. Nik