[WYLUG-help] still trying to get this machine to copy cds/dvds

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Mike wrote:

> -lH /dev/cdrom* produces
>
> brw-------  1 mike disk 22,  0 Feb 23  2004 /dev/cdrom
> brw-------  1 mike disk 22, 64 Feb 23  2004 /dev/cdrom1
>
> - didn't know I had a group called disk (or is that the user?)!

No that's the group, and looks exactly like it'd expect it to look like with
you logged in as mike.

> I do the yum update bit reasonably frequently, although the updated
> packages depend upon which repositary yum can get a connection to! Which
> one is cdrecord in?
>
> rpm -q cdrecord shows: cdrecord-2.01.1-0.FC2.1 - is that recent enough?

Looks the same as I've got here.

> uname -r shows: 2.6.10-1.770_FC2 but then, I only updated it today.

Which is the FC2 version of the kernel I run happily with FC3.

I honestly don't know why you can't burn as a normal user.

jh

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