When I go to the "CD Copy" window of K3B, the "Start CD Copy" is disabled. Because of this, I can't copy CDs. What am I doing wrong? BTW, I'm using Slackware 10.2 with the 2.4 kernel. I've also set the "ide-scsi" option for the CD writter in the lilo.conf file. I'm using the CD writter both for reading and writing cds. Also, I am able to write ISO images on CDs.

Have you the cdrdao package installed, and is it seen by k3b ?

Also you could use cdrdao to copy CDs from command line :

1. Identify your CD rom and your CD writter
2. Copy the CD
(replace $CD_WRITTER and $CD_ROM with the values that cdrdao scanbus
gives to you)

I think if you read the original post carefully you'll notice that mikebalos is using only 1 optical drive. I don't know anything about K3B, but I imagine that "CD Copy" requires 2 optical drives - one to read and the other to write.

I'm sure there's another option that allows you to read a cd image then write it later. If not, I know that Arson does have this feature (in fact it's recommended to do it this way, since it's less error prone than doing both at once). Here's the url:
http://arson.sourceforge.net

Of course I've never used this program either.

For a single drive setup you need to turn on the option to copy the source to a temp location on the hard drive. This should be a directory that your user has permission to write to, and free space >= the capacity of the disc. This way it'll create a temporary iso image of the source disc, prompt you to insert the target disc, then create the copy from that iso image. There is another option you can turn on to remove the image when finished.

Thanks a lot for the replies. I guess I have to buy a CD-ROM. I'll give it another shot.

easy trick for burning CD's if you're using KDE and have one drive.....
stick the CD in the drive...
.....click on 'home'
in the top left corner there should be an icon that says something like 'audio CD browser' or something like that (i'm on windows at the moment... so i can't look) it'll have a little spinning disk icon next to it.... once it reads click on it and several 'sub-folders' will pop up. one of the is called 'mp3' ...click on it...
inside this folder will be a list of all the songs... the name and track number as mp3s.
make a new folder on your desktop called 'CD' (or whatever you want to call it)
high-light all the songs in the 'mp3' folder and drag them into the 'CD' folder on your desktop.... (this will take a little while...)
when done... high light all the mp3s files in your 'CD' folder on your desktop... right click and if you dig around (i think it's under 'actions' or something like that...) it should say something like 'burn as audio using k3b' ... select it... stick a burnable CD in the drive and burn the mp3s onto the disk.

this takes a little bit... but it's a simple way to rip mp3 & burn them onto disks. (hopefully my instructions are clear enough... i'm on windows at the moment and can't look..)