Installing a CD burner

Hardware installation

• Make sure the regular cdrom is set to secondary master
• Install the burner device as slave on second IDE interface (hdd)
  • The sound card should remain plugged into the regular cdrom

note: You can just swap out the cdrom and install the cd burner, but in that case the burner should be set to master and the device is /dev/hdc.

scsi emulation

• open terminal and su to root
• add "ide-scsi" to "/etc/modules"
• add "hdd=ide-scsi" to vmlinuz line in grub

setting up automount

• login as guest
• copy and paste the cdrom icon, renaming it 'cdrw'.
• edit the properties of the icon to have the URL point to 'file:///media/cdrw'.
• open a terminal, 'su' to root,
• edit the /etc/auto.removable file (the part you are interested in is down towards the bottom,
  • you'll want to first remove the letters 'cd|' from the cdrom entry,
  • then you'll want to copy all the lines that constitute that case entry (from 'cdrom)' to ';;'), and paste it in underneath.
  • then you'll edit the new entry to say 'cdrw)' instead of 'cdrom)', and to say '/dev/hdd' instead of '/dev/cdrom'.

• execute '/etc/init.d/autofs restart'.
• double check to make sure the icon works on a data cd.

the previous instructions would be equally applicable for any second cd device.

software

• k3b
• xcdroast

See Also

• CD-Writing HOWTO
• The Linux CD-ROM HOWTO