X-CD-Roast

[kaziah]

I'm beginning to think I must be very dim =( I can't seem to figure out how to work xcdroast. Here's my info:

Red Hat 8.0
Gnome (whatever version ships with RH)
X-CD-Roast .98 alpha9
Plextor 12/4/32 SCSI burner

Well, xcdroast picked up my burner fine. I chose an 'image' directory on my drive in my home directory. I looked things over pretty good in the setup menu and chose my speeds of my burner and so on and then I thought I'd give it a try. Well, that's where I'm at right now still...

I can't seem to figure out how to work it =) Does it only burn ISO images and music? I've really only used Easy CD Creator mostly... and Nero for a short time, which I really liked. Anyway... I don't have to tell you that the interface is a bit different =) so maybe that's my problem... I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm trying to burn some pictures and some various data to a cd. No music or ISOs. Can someone help me out, or give me a run down of how it's suppose to work? I'm real excited about getting something to work. I'm eager to ditch my pay-for, proprietary software and os ways =) I've already made the switch to mozilla and evolution, and now I'm looking for a burning solution... if I keep this rate up, shortly I may never boot into windows again! =) or at the least rarely =) Anyway...

Thanks for any help offered!
Kaziah

[samwichse]

X-CD-Roast can be pretty confusing. What you want to do is go to "master tracks." Then you can put whole dirs or individual files on the CDs. When you're all compiled, I think you just go to the next one, burn tracks, and it's under the last tab to start burning.

However, if you're using (or have) KDE, you might download K3B. It's really user friendly, using all drag and drop etc.

EDIT: Check out these screenshots

[Scott Tiger]

yeah, X-CD-Roast has one of the least intuitive GUI's available. Fortunately, it is a really solid program and they've got most of the kinks worked out if it. It doesn't have the biggest feature set but what it does do it does very well.

K3B has a lot of features and a friendly interface but I've had to go back to X-CD-Roast several times because K3B kept blowing up on me. Your mileage my vary though..

Welcome to the group..

[S.D.Willie]

looks kinda similar to one of my fav. linux burning apps named arson

[kaziah]

Oh! I see now! =) I wasn't going over to that last tab. Instead, after I had added the directories and/or files, I was clicking on the 'Write Tracks' button and then trying to burn by pushing the 'Write Tracks' button from within that menu... which there were no tracks showing on that menu, even though I had added them to the 'Master Tracks' menu... which of course, confused my simple mind, hehe =)

I went ahead and clicked over to that last tab and clicked calculate and then the write on the fly button and it burned the disc just fine!

Thanks guys, as always, the community has come through for me =)

Thanks again!

Later all,
Kaziah

[linux_guru]

I'm with Scott Tiger on this one .............

K3B is the ultimate burning program for Linux.

[lynchmob]

I just upgraded my XCD-Roast to alpha13 with all the latest cdrtools.It now recognizes devices as ATAPI and scsi(if scsi emulation is already compiled) But will apparently run without scsi:

Quote:

from thier changelog
#experimental support for the ATA-interface in linux 2.4.x kernels. Devices no longer require scsi-emulation, but there is no DMA supported then.
# new command line option "-a" to disable the extra device scans. (e.g. the ATA support on linux)

Works fine for me.I tried K3B and thougth it was okay,but I'm so used to XCD-Roast I continue to use it.Never tried arson.
lynch