Burning ISOs

[Mike A. Harris]

Leon Stringer wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 17:31 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
>>In Linux, I'm starting to think the answer is "no".  I got my first
>>CD burner about 7-8 years ago, and used it in Linux for many years.
>>I also used CDRWin and another app I forget the name of now in Windows
>>occasionally when I wanted to burn DAO mode, but once DAO mode was
>>supported in Linux on my burner, I stuck with Linux burning using
>>xcdroast for a very long time.
>>
>>Then at some point, something changed in the kernel which broke CD
>>burning for me, and it wasn't fixed for months.  During that time,
>>I switched to using CDRwin for everything in Windows again.  It
>>was frustrating rebooting just to burn a CD, but necessary.
> 
> This is exactly the root of my frustration. With FC1 burning was 100%
> reliable. Then it broke and I've had trouble ever since. Presumably that
> was the change between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels and change to IDE CD drive
> handling.

 From googling, and a bit of bugzilla surfing, that is what the problem
appears to be for many people.  I had various problems even on FC1,
RHL 8, 9, and the latter few RHL 7.x releases too however.  The problems
definitely werent all related though, and I did manage to work around
some of them.  Problem is though, I don't _want_ to "work around" things
myself manually for something like this.  Sometimes you just want
certain things to "work" without having to screw around or surf for
kludges.  So I bite my tongue, curse under my breath at Mr. Gates,
and reboot to a useable solution, hating every minute of it, but
being happy with the end result.


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