Burning CD

[Tim Frost]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:11 +0000, Jillian Skarm wrote:
> Thanks to all your replies. I cant find GnomeBaker, K3B or Nautilus in
> the Menu Application>Multimedia or Computer Menu nor in the other sub
> menu.  How do I check if it was not installed on the PC from the Warty
> CD ? 

Nautilus is probably installed (almost certain to be installed if you
are using gnome, as it is the gnome file browser app).

gnomebaker is in the universe section of the repository, k3b is in main
and xcdroast (which I am familiar with) is in universe.  This means that
you will need to add universe to /etc/apt/sources.list to get either
gnomebaker or xcdroast.

k3b is a KDE application, while gnomebaker is a gnome application, so
you may prefer to stick with the program that matches your flavour of
window manager.

IN my gnome environment, on breezy, both xcdroast and gnomebaker add
entries to Applications->Sound and Video.

Also note that new versions of gnomebaker and k3b have been back-ported
from dapper to breezy. If you are still using warty, check that the
backports are enabled.  I have breezy-backports enabled, but I presume
that warty-backports is correct for you:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse


The following shows that I have xcdroast and gnomebaker installed (an
entry in the version table for these references /var/lib/dpkg/status):
tim at marvin:/var/lib/apt/lists$ apt-cache policy gnomebaker k3b xcdroast
gnomebaker:
  Installed: 0.5.0-3~breezy1
  Candidate: 0.5.0-3~breezy1
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.0-3~breezy1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.4.2-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Packages
k3b:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.12.7-1ubuntu1~breezy1
  Version table:
     0.12.7-1ubuntu1~breezy1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports/main Packages
     0.12.2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
xcdroast:
  Installed: 0.98+0alpha15-1.1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.98+0alpha15-1.1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.98+0alpha15-1.1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
tim at marvin:/var/lib/apt/lists$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 2.12.1-0ubuntu1.1
  Candidate: 2.12.1-0ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.12.1-0ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.12.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 cdrom://Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386
(20051012) breezy/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages

> In Windows I checked the folder-name under C drive but here there
> are many folders and its confusing too.  

And it is hard to know where to look.  Most programs are installed
in /usr/bin, with documentation in subdirectories of /usr/share/doc, and
support files elsewhere in the filesystem. 

> The CDRom has a CD which I
> put yesterday and now it does not open and I cant remove the CD.  Is
> it software or hardware problem. What to do ? Please help.

Most distributions will auto-mount a CD when it is inserted into the
drive, and will lock the drawer of the drive to prevent the CD from
being removed.  If there is an icon for the CD on your desktop, you
should be able to right-click the icon, and select "eject".  If there
isn't an icon, open a terminal window, and type
    mount | grep cdrom

That will show the CD if it is mounted:
    tim at marvin:/var/lib/apt/lists$ mount | grep cdrom
    /dev/hdc on /media/cdrom0 type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=tim)

You can then eject the CD (if you are the user associated with the
device - see 'user=tim' in the output above) with 
    eject /dev/hdc
(replace the device name with that from the mount command).  If the user
id is wrong (either missing or not matching), you will have to be root
to unmount the CD, in which case you use sudo (typing your password when
requested):
	sudo eject /dev/hdc

If the output from the mount command is blank, then you do have a
hardware problem.

> --
> Jill S

Hope this all helps