linux newbie cdwriting

[Daniel Villarreal]

I had the opportunity to ask some linux gurus/geniuses how they got so good... They learned by setting up a home network and figuring out how sendmail, DNS, etc., work by breaking it and fixing it.

I have my methods for doing things. I've tried the Debian route and the Red Hat route. For the purist, I suppose the Debian way is truly the superior way, not just because of the absolutely free licensing, but because of the configurability. I have dial-up, or I'd probably be using Debian and using apt-get every 10 minutes ;-)

For CD writing I use a combination of X-CD-Roast or command-line.

examples
mkisofs -o /iso/`date +%G%m%d-wups1`.iso -J -R -A -V `date +%G%m%d-wups1` /01-up

cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=1,0,0 fs=4096k -eject -pad -useinfo -dao -data newiso.iso


For DVD-Writing I would use X-CD-Roast. I don't have a DVD-equipped
system anymore. I have a lap top and that's it.

BTW, I do depend heavily on external Firewire/USB2 drives for storage. I never trust XP Home to not totally wipe out my laptop's hard drive ;-)

I'd like to try and get my Palm Zire Z71 to work with Linux, I've never been able to set up a USB Palm device in Linux. I've used a serial cradle in the past with a Handspring device in Linux.


On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:13:57 adventsystems at verizon.net typed...
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Steve,
I save all my mail but this I think I will make into a wallpaper for 
my desktop!  Being a newbie I mostly lurk on this list and try to learn 
but most of the people here are working on such seriously advanced stuff I feel almost like an idiot asking about a stupid cd burner problem (but am grateful for how much I have learned from them) .  I think I see 
now,and agree, that  setting up and "fixing" problems in linux is half 
the fun.  I just need to setup one machine to do my "real work" with and don't screw with it.  What used to frustrate me (before your letter) )  
was that on a typical day I'd get my  books setup on gnucash , I'd then 
blow the system up trying something new and then I'd have to enter invoices!
 
Thanks Again,
Bob Randal
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