OT? This can't be right!

[Andrew Hodel]

The one I suggested was the little blue toaster, gtoaster, if worked fine=
 for=20
me, on redhat, suse, debian, fink with os x, and ydl.  Make sure you run =
it=20
as root, as this solves many many problems. =20

Andrew Hodel

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 02:16, Beartooth wrote:
> On Monday, 9/30/02, Tim Seufert <tas@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > I assume you used the OS X built in burning software?  I don't
> > think that it supports session burning, which is the only way to
> > add data to a CD-R or CD-RW.  You probably have to use a program
> > like Toast to burn sessions under OS X.
>
> =09What I had in mind when I asked was straight OSX, yes;
> that's why I feared it might be OT. Someone on another list has
> suggested that session burning might be buried under layers of
> configuration menus somewhere. If so, I didn't find it (but I have
> what seems to me inordinate trouble finding anything in OSX). I did
> find a hint in the help for CD burning which seemed to imply that
> session burning might require external hardware.
>
> > Burning CDs under Linux can be kind of a pain,
>
> =09You can say that again! I've tried hard under RedHat, and
> had mighty little success so far. So I haven't even tried YDL
> itself yet, figuring I had little chance of doing appreciably
> better with it.
>
> > but it definitely can be done.  (The main problem, IMO, is that
> > there doesn't seem to be any really nice GUI frontend for
> > cdrecord -- or, at least, I've never found one.  If you can
> > figure out how to use cdrecord directly, it is quite powerful and
> > works very well.)
>
> =09Many thanks for the reassurance! I need all I can get. ;-/
>
> > What programs are you using and what are the problems you're
> > having with them?
>
> =09Xcdroast, cdroast itself in a terminal, and one with an
> icon looking like an old-fashioned pop-up toaster, only blued like
> gun metal, instead of chrome-plated and mirror-polished; the name
> escapes me at the moment. The furthest I ever got, even with help
> over the Net, was to burn a .iso of several sizeable files onto a
> CD with cdroast -- and when I tried to open that with a reader, it
> spewed so bad I just killed the app. :-(
>
> Andrew Hodel <andrew@eurozip.net> suggested gtoaster.
>
> =09I hope that isn't the one with the toaster icon whose name
> won't come off the tip of my keyboard! I'll look next time I boot
> to linux -- and how about KDE?? Anybody got a good one there?
>
> =09I've just erased and reformatted last night's test CD-RW,
> after moving last night's work back onto the hard drive <sigh>;
> now I'll ftp a swampload more of old email off my ISP, burn it onto
> it, and rename it part of the email archive. But that's the big
> hammer, and I'd be a lot better off archiving bits every month,
> when my account starts running up against its quota. Like Tim, I'll
> be very glad to hear of something that doesn't require three years
> of postdoc in linux to be able to use!