CD burner or burnist

[Master of Reality]

Umm... i tried to burn slackware 9.1 but first i blanked my slack9 CD and then i tried to burn it.
But the CDs wont mount and when i tried burning them again in xcdroast it claimed to just start burning when in theory it shouldnt have been blank (i didnt blank them again).

So does this imply that my CD burner may be foobar... or at least the laser in it? OR could there br something else.

[Void Main]

Since you are blanking them first I must assume you are using CDRW and not CDR disks. I have not had the greatest of luck with CDRW as far as making install disks. I have used them though but it seems that if I don't burn them at 1x there will be a good chance of them not being usable. Even at 1x I find them unreliable. The CDR disks on the other hand have given me absolutely no trouble at all. Of course you wouldn't want to blank a CDR as they are write once and I would assume that blanking it would count as your 1 write.

[Master of Reality]

well i blame Xcdroast. I just used cdrecord from the command line to burn the first disc and teh second disc is burning right now. No more frontend burning for me

[Void Main]

Good for you. It's faster to just use cdrecord from a shell anyway, especially when it comes to ISO images. I actually just use a small wrapper script to make it even easier. I just stick in a blank CD and type:

$ mkcd filename.iso

which burns the CD with cdrecord and then ejects it when finished.

[Master of Reality]

hwo do i make cdrecord usable by all... its already chmod(ed) with executable by all.

[Void Main]

It used to be in the man page but I see it's no longer there. Here's what is in the man page on an old RH system of mine:

If you don't want to allow users to become root on your
system, cdrecord may safely be installed suid root. This
allows all users or a group of users with no root privi?
leges to use cdrecord. Cdrecord in this case checks, if
the real user would have been able to read the specified
files. To give all user access to use cdrecord, enter:

chown root /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
chmod 4711 /usr/local/bin/cdrecord

To give a restricted group of users access to cdrecord
enter:

chown root /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
chgrp cdburners /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
chmod 4710 /usr/local/bin/cdrecord

and add a group cdburners on your system.

Never give write permissions for non root users to the
/dev/scg? devices unless you would allow anybody to
read/write/format all your disks.

The above should still apply (set the SUID bit).