At 08:12 AM 12/23/2004, you wrote: ... snip ...
when I "su" to root the system mounts the drive and reports back the following:
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
Is the media (medium?) in the drive able to be written? That is, is the disk in the drive a writable CD-R or CD-RW?
Dave