On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 13:14, Mel Seder wrote: > I am reading through documentation I found in > > http://www.xcdroast.org/manual/dvd.html > > It says > ==11111=============================================================== > Make sure you have a kernel version 2.4.x or higher. (you can test > this with the command uname -a). Next, download the appropriate binary > of cdrecord-ProDVD for your system from: > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD > > For current linux distributions this would be the binary that ends in > -i586-pc-linux-gnu, e.g. cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu > > What you downloaded is a binary, that means, it can directly be used. > So, copy it to the xcdroast-bin directory (mostly > /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin or /usr/local/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin). Name > it "cdrecord.prodvd". (I spent 2 hours of error tracking because I > renamed it to "cdrecord-prodvd", what is wrong!) Call chmod 755 > cdrecord.prodvd to make it executable. > ==11111================================================================= > > ==22222================================================================= > uname -a returned the following for me: > > Linux p4 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 i686 i686 > i386 GNU/Linux > > the above was on one line but Yahoo Mail's word wrap forced > "i386 GNU/Linux" to be on a separate line. > ==22222================================================================= > > ==33333================================================================= > I'm running an Intel P4 and going to > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD > provides me with a list of files. My best guess for the file to > download is > cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a27-i686-pc-linux-gnu > I was hoping to find a 2.4 in the file name but... Can anyone tell me > if that is the correct file? > ==33333================================================================= > > Is there perhaps a newer/other program that has DVD burning built right > in to the application? [snip] That's correct. Just simply copy that to your /usr/lib/xcdroast-x.xx/bin directory. And rename it to cdrecord.prodvd. Then get the key details as stated on that website and put it into xcdroast. Now you are ready to burn DVD's with xcdroast. Wolf
