On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 01:45, Rick Green wrote:
My X server was started by the user, but when I tried to start xcdroast from the KDE menu, it popped up a dialog box asking for the root password, then died immediately. I wanted to start it from an xterm, in the hopes it would throw an error message to stdout. Since it apparently wanted root permissions, I ran 'sux -' first.
Hmm. It's been a while since I've played with X-CDRoast...
I haven't tried plain vanilla cdrecord, since I don't have an .iso image file handy to feed it. I believe I could create one by simply 'dd'-ing /dev/cdrom to a file, but I don't know enough about the internals of CD formats to specify the blocksize and block count.
Well, the dd method works just fine, but you don't need to know anything about CD internals; that's what mkisofs(8) is for. :)
Lo and behold! It's even installed on my system, and I hadn't found it. I'm searching the web when it's right under my nose. I do some more reading...
I personally prefer the plain text versions of the document. The HTML version isn't that much more difficult, except that you have to know page numbers. If you're ever looking for a HOWTO again, just pop over to http://www.linuxdoc.org/ first or the LinuxDOC mirror at Linux.com. ;) Give this a whirl: 1) Read the whole document so that you understand. 2) Use chapter 3 as your quick guide. 3) Use Lynx and grep as your even-quicker guide. I don't have the HTML documents installed, so I'll just use the web document as an example (line breaks inserted): dren@pugelist:~$ lynx -dump \ http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-3.html \ | grep mkisofs \ | grep private_collection mkisofs -r -o cd_image private_collection/ shell> IMG_SIZE=`mkisofs -R -q -print-size private_collection/ 2>&1 \ shell> [ "0$IMG_SIZE" -ne 0 ] && mkisofs -r private_collection/ \ That first line is helpful; gives you an example of the syntax. `mkisofs --help`gives you the flags, but I find the HOWTO more helpful with matters of syntax. dren@pugelist:~$ lynx -dump \ http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-3.html \ | grep cdrecord \ | grep cd_image shell> cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,6,0 -data cd_image cdrecord -v dev=0,6,0 -data cd_image -audio track*.cdr Both lines are highly useful. Again, --help should be your first flag resource, but the HOWTO makes things so much clearer. :) -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | />< '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com