Ok, for starters I installed SuSE 8.0 a couple of days ago, and I must say that they have come along way since 7.3. Much better installation. The only problem I'm having is with my CD burner. The drive works as a cdrom. It will read music, and software. When I try to burn a cd with cdroast or koncd it says I don't have access and to set up as root. When I change to root, I get the same error. Where should I go now?

i have had 0 luck with using koncd, try using a connand prompt.

in redhat its

/usr/bin/cdrecord
or
/usr/bin/cdrdao

depending on what you wanna do. The device is probably 0,0,0 if you only have one cdrom. Be sure to set the speed to.

/usr/bin/cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=XX track

use the manual for any questions on how to use it. Also, use the cdrdao for bin\cue.

Hope this helped.

You're in for a surprise.

It takes a bit of work if you know how. A TON if it's your first time.

At the very least, you will want to check to see if your drive is even being recognized as a burner. At a command prompt type:
'cdrecord -scanbus' and the output should show at least 1 drive, if not, then you need to search around a bit, and find out how to enable burning on your system. If you have no luck, post back, I will do what I can to help.

Cool

Yeah, what masterC said, although really its probably just a matter of getting the kernel to treart it as a scsi device, the line:

append="hdX=ide-scsi"

Where X is the letter of the burner, typically C, added at the top of /etc/lilo.conf (and then re-run lilo with the command /sbin/lilo), will probably clear that up.

Also, if you remembered to install a compiler, I'de highly recommend looking into the burner prog k3b, it beats the pants off of anything I've seen commercial, forget EZCD creator, Mac's ToastCD, this thing rocks...

Cheers,

Finegan

hi finegan
that looks pretty good
trouble is i tried the rpm for mandrake and it required a s#$t load of additional files.
is there a tarbaal anywhere for it.
I have been having this problem with a lot of downloads. i.e. compiler errors.
is my set up correct or are the tars and rpms all corrupted. ( personally, I think not).
Its got to be my set up.
any help would be appreciated

You're asking about k3b right?

Its a Freshmeat project, source here.

Cheers,

Finegan