linux newbie cdwriting

[Advent Systems]

Hi Daniel,
    I'm new at this but maybe I can help:

DV-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.

BR-Yes breaking it and fixing it can teach you a lot, stay with it.

DV-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.

BR-I have a laptop also and it take a lot more work to setup then most desktops but it can be done.  I'm using FC2/Gnome and thanks to the good people on this list now K3b for my CD writing.   Since you seem to like Redhat you might want to try the FC2 route.  Since you don't have a DVD drive there no point in me going into that.  

DV-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 ;-)

BR-Don't depend too heavily on the external USB2 drives as you only 
source of backup.  I re-installed (3) different distros, thinking 
something in that particular distro did not like my USB drive and in the 
end it was the USB drive that malfunctioned.  As to XP Home, GET RID OF 
IT! if you must dual boot, as I do, I highly recommend win2k.

DV-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.

BR-I'm still working on getting my palm to sync correctly, when I figure it out I'll drop you a line, and hope you do the same.

I hope I helped,
Bob Randal



Daniel Villarreal wrote:

>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.
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>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 ;-)
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>For CD writing I use a combination of X-CD-Roast or command-line.
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>examples
>mkisofs -o /iso/`date +%G%m%d-wups1`.iso -J -R -A -V `date +%G%m%d-wups1` /01-up
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>cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=1,0,0 fs=4096k -eject -pad -useinfo -dao -data newiso.iso
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>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.
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>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 ;-)
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>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.
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>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!
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>Thanks Again,
>Bob Randal
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