<div>I am not attempting to cross post, was on my non Linux machine as I lost ability to type and when this msg came up I thought yea someone who can help out this fix first.</div> <div>Allen </div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:55 AM, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 11/03/2008 06:46 AM, Allen Meyers wrote: > Being a newbie is no excuse for this oversight if that is what this is all > about. > I used the only bland media I had at hand (dumb) it was DVD+RW > So if I am understanding correctly I should be using an R not an RW and not > DVD. > After I hear back I will truck on down the road to wal-mart and get a better > burning media. What is the model of your device? Please post the terminal output for the cdrom sections from: sudo lshw Example: *-cdrom:0 description: DVD-RAM writer product: DVD DC DQ60 vendor: BENQ physical id: 2 bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /dev/dvd logical name: /dev/scd0 logical name: /dev/sr0 version: MRCC capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Allen Meyers <a href="mailto:texas.chef94@gmail.com">texas.chef94@gmail.com</a>