Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3637 mails)

[Timothy R.Butler <tbutler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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