On Tuesday 25 March 2003 04:36, DB Troll wrote:
Could someone please tell me how to copy cd,s. I am using 8.0 and kde3.1, I also have x-cdroast. When I check these they both have the cd-rw as reader and writer. I cannot seem to configure either to use the cd-rom as reader so that I can burn on the fly.
At the moment, those programs can only see scsi devices, so to use your reader you need to set it up as a scsi emulated device Add "<device>=ide-scsi" - where <device> is something like hdc, depending on where your reader is connected in the IDE chain - to the append line in /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo. Then you need to reboot your system. After that, your reader will be seen as /dev/sr#, where # is probably 0 or 1, so you should probably change the /dev/cdrom symlink to point to it with a command like rm /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom look at the boot messages in /var/log/boot.msg to see which sr device is actually used on your system Then you need to make sure that you have read and write access to the generic scsi devices, with a command like chmod 666 /dev/sg* If you want to be more careful about security, set the ownership to some group and make sure your user is in that group This, very briefly, is how it's done. If you think some of the above isn't explained enough, just ask :) regards Anders