CDR problems and reading FAT filesystem

[Angazi]

Hello Friends

I am a newbie in the linux world and hope someone will help me out. I have an external CD Writer and trying to copy zip files , and other data to my CD. I downloaded xcdroast(Installed it)but seem like an application for copying CD audio or copy other CD but not selectively copy files. I also tried BurnIT and that does not work.I read documentation but I still can't copy. Please can someone advice me how to copy files to a CD.

Second, is there a way I can read Linux filesystem from Windows 98?The reason is I want to copy my executables(Windows) downloaded on Linux to FAT32/NTFS. Thanks

Regards

Anthony

 

[mseth]

There are ext2/ext3 drivers available for Windows, to allow you access to your linux partition (unless you use some system like reiserfs like me).

http://ashedel.chat.ru/ext2fsnt/

As far as the external CD drive, I've never used one all of mine have been internal. Tried googling for such things as "mount external CD-ROM linux" and include whether it is firewire/usb?

 

[Angazi]

Seth

Thanks for your advice, I will check these utilities out and see whether they work out for me.

Angazi

 

[stefanwagner]

k3b is another cd-burning software for KDE.

I would copy the files for windows, downloaded with linux, from linux to fat32.
New kernels (2.6.x) may copy to ntfs too (it's told to be mostly secure, but not 100%, and I'm not up to date, how secure it is).

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[mseth]

AFAIK, NTFS write support is still risky.

 

[Angazi]

Thanks friends

I finally got a utility called ltools which did a good job.I can now burn my CDs from Windows 98.

Later

Angazi

 

[clonny2]

To burn data to cd you do not mount the cd, because there is not a live filesystem on the cd .

You burn the data to the cd in a session using something like cdrecord (command line) or xcdroast.

You must then also close the session or you will not be able to read the cd.

xcdroast can be used to burn selective files, or at least it used to be.

to mount an external cddrive, there needs to be a cd that is not blank nor audio. there has to be a live ISO9660 filesystem on the cd.

you need a mount point and you need to know how the device is recogninzed to the linux system.

most likely USB will be sda or sdb and you need to have usb support built into your linux system. By deafult it should be.

type mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/my_moint_point


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