On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 20:06 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > What version of Fedora are you using? > In FC5 make sure NOTHING related to hdc or cdrom is in /etc/fstab. HAL > takes care of that. Thanks for the heads up!! Does that include USB thumbdrives? > With respect to converting a wav file to mp3 - I use lame from the > command line. lame is available from the rpm.livna.org repository. > > With lame installed, you can also use grip for a gui CDROM ripper > straight to mp3. Thanks again, I was distraught at my 56 year old brain, just trying to remember the name of "grip"... I couldn't remember what the heck my favorite ripper was called and you just releived my pain. :) It's now installed. Ric