mandrake questions

[bluesky]

1. How large will be the installation of mandrake 8.1, is it within CD image #1?

2. I am using redhat 7.1, what software do I need to burn a CD?

[scanez]

The base installation of Mandrkae is on CD 1. The other cd's are extras, with extra software. But you can always download that software and install it afterwards. You use cdrecord to burn. Run cdrecord -scanbus to see what device your burner is (mine is 0,0,0) and then do

cdrecord -v dev=x,y,z speed=w -data file.iso

There are GUI burning programs such as XCDRoast and GCombust but they all use cdrecord to do the actual burning.

Have fun
SC

[bluesky]

I ran "cdrecord -scanbus", and got the following message:

>Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.

I'm not sure the CD_RW I have is SCSI, I thought it is ATAPI. KDE control center says no SCSI found. Hmm, I thought that cdrecord prefers ATAPI? :confused:

[bdg1983]

You need to enable scsi emulation and load the necessary modules.

It should be covered in the NHF on CDWriters.