On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 19:00, Peter McDermott wrote: > Filippos Klironomos wrote: > > >>Is there a way to > >>mount a dvd+rw in writable mode so that I can mv and cp files to it from > >>bash? Do I have install a package and if so do you recommend any in > >>particular? > >> > >> > >> > > > >This pertains to a previous question I asked about UDF filesystem. > >Unfortunately it seems to be under development yet to use a CDRW or > >DVD/RW like that. Check out: > > > >http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=173263 > > > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-udf/ > > > >So the short answer is, it is doable but you have to patch your kernel > >for it. I currently don't have the time to experiment but if you feel > >like it you can go ahead and then post on the list to let everybody > >know! :-) > > > > > > > Hey thanks for the help! I'm thinking about trying the patch but it does > look like an involved process. I found and was able to install k3b which > looks great however I ran into a problem: my dvd drive is listed as a > reader not as a writer. The drive's name as described in k3b is > HL-DT-ST-DVD+RW-GCA-4040N. Is it safe to assume that without the > patching you suggested k3b won't recognize my dvd+rw drive as anything > more than a dvd-rom device? > If you are using it as a normal user and have the 2.6.8 kernel you cannot burn CD/DVDs. Only root can do that with the 2.6.8 kernel. > P.S. installing k3b rpm's with yum requires some work... updating the > yum.conf with a new download location: > > [xcyb-stable] > name=Fedora Core 2 ( xcyborg / stable ) > baseurl=http://rpms.xcyb.org/fedora/2/stable/ > > And installing two rpms yum can't find manually: > > id3lib-3.8.3-5.fr.i386.rpm > libmad-0.15.1b-3.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm > > Then just run "yum k3b" and away you go.
