> Hello. I've recently installed RedHat 5.0 on a system here, but I'm
> having a little trouble figuring out how to work the writable CD-R.
> I've never done this sort of thing before, so please bear with my
> ignorance.
>
> I can mount the drive read-only at the moment, but whatever I do to
> fstab with cabaret, mount insists that the device is write-protected.
> I would like to be able to copy CDs from the CD-ROM to the CD-R, as well
> as simply copy directories, etc. stratight from the hard drive. Is
> there some sort of software I should have to do this properly? Is there
> a CD-R HOWTO? Thanks for your responses.
>
CD-R as a read/write device. I can be wrong about it but I'm pretty sure
you can't. This is because a CD-R is a WORM device (Write Once Read Many)
mounting a device as read/write you need a WMRM device. I don't know how
to write to the drive, but I'm pretty sure that you can use dd to copy a
cd.
If you have a rewriteable CDROM you might be able to mount it read/write
but I don't know how. Its been a couple of years since I've played with
writeable CDs.