Steven Jones wrote:
> Can one burn DVDs and CDs with the pre-built 2.4.31 kernels that come
> with Slackware 10.2? If so, which ones? What extra configuration is
> required?

You need to pass hdc=ide-scsi on the kernel command line
(use append=ide-scsi in lilo.conf). Then you possibly need a module
called sg (I don't use a 2.4 kernel anymore, so that I am not sure). To
see if the burning is enabled use (as root).

cdrecord -scanbus

If cdrecord detect your burner then you can burn CD with

cdrecord dev=0,0,0 padsize=5M image.iso

where dev=0,0,0 are to be replaced by the numbers given by
cdrecord -scanbus and the padsize=5M is preferable because the end of
the disk are often unreadable (this option tell to put 5M of 0 at the
end of the disk, to ensure that the end of xwhat you have burn is
accessible). (The normal cdrom device is no more /dev/hdc but /dev/sr0
or something like that, see dmesg and adjust the /dev/cdrom link).

For DVD burning, you need growisofs (present in Slackware) or a
proprietary version of cdrecord (available at no cost on the homepage of
cdrecord).

Of course there are plenty of GUI to burn CD: xcdroast in extra
directory, k3b (not on slackware); but I think that in case of problems,
it is easier to debug it if you know how to use the command line. These
GUI are usually nothing more than interfaces to cdrecord.

Olive