my windows died and i am in dire need to get some DVDs burned. the install of the DVD burner is what killed my windows OS, but Knoppix loads just fine and with the 3.8vs it now detects all of my hardware including my onboard 10/100/1000 3com NIC.

problem is in order for k3b to burn a DVD it requires growisofs, i have found it (not as a .deb or apt-get) in a tar.gz, but when i uncompress it and try to run makefile i get an error... or im told it is already upto date or something odd like that. will post the exact error again here in a bit once apt-get upgrade is finished running.

yes i am running off of the CD, and not toram hack. i only used the following to boot the CD

knoppix dma xmodule=radeon

this should give me better performance with the DVD burner and did fix the issue i was having with my vid card. stupid ATI and their disgust of linux power/freedom.

the problems i am having are as follows:

if i sudo k3b i get an error telling me i need to install growisofs, if i just run k3b as user the system will lock up at 1% into the burn and ruin the blank DVD.

help, guidance, sujestions, etc...

well i finnaly beat the system into submission to allow me to startx as root, but all that did was get rid of the error about growisofs. i just locked up again 16sec. into the burn. did not even make it to 1% this time around.

very frustrated atm.

Knoppix installes stuff in some strange places sometimes. If you using LiveCD everyting is in a ramdisk. If it say's growisofs is already installed it may be a path problem.

try to find growisofs:

whereis growisofs

Mine is here /usr/bin/growisofs but see what path it gives you.

Open K3b open Settings >> Configure K3b
Under External Programs see if growisofs is listed and then check the path tab.

Good Luck

KC

ahh ok that is probably were it was, but after the 3rd lost DVD i installed the burner into my media box (debian-sarge 2.4 kernel) and k3b is running flawlessly via vnc atm. need to figure out what the burner did to my X11/XF86Config-4 file to make the video go wanker. no more vid output to my TV, it just dies as it is trying to load the Nvidia splash screen..

ill worry about that after i get the DVDs burned though.