On Saturday 03 January 2009 21:21:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been having some strange results trying to burn >CDs under > > CentOS. I don't think they are hardware related >because I have had > > some success, in fact most of this usually works. > > > > I use k3b for most of my CD and DVD writing - it seems to work fairly > > well (well, except for wrecking my installation a few > > I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I > cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into > that last night. Went to M$ Windows and I was able to erase the 2 > CD-RW media, without any problem. Then, I tried to burn the files > (which are M$ Windows files) to the CD-RW media. No go and I wasted > about 20-30 minutes, while it was in a loop or stalled on M$ Windows. > Then, I went back to CentOS and I was able to burn the files, without > any problems. :-) Not sure what is causing the issues. Nothing > grave, such as borked your box recently. > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and eventually thought it must be impossible. Then a couple of days ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run out of blanks. I put a CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't used k3b before. K3b opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle of miracles, it asked if I knew that I didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly. I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso. It asked if I wanted it to blank the disc and use it. I got a clean, verified burn, and used the CD-RW to do an install! Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090103/cf6dffc2/attachment-0004.sig>