Question:When I start XCDROAST, configure it and then try to make a CD in both the Master Tracks and Write Tracks Options/ Screen, I am able to choose only directories and not the individual files in those directories. Why ? Thanks.
Answer: the reason for seeing only directories is that you probably have checked a "display directories only" checkbox
Question: I burned some CDs using Nero Before. Nero Would allow me to add more files later to these CDs if needed. These were just regular data CDs. However, when I tried to use then in xcdroast to add more files, it says the CD is closed. There is still a lot of room in those CDs. Still why am I getting this message ?
Also, how will I know if my CDwriter supports Write on the fly and will not be damaged by this operation ?
Answer: It should work using multisession burning. I'm never using it myself, but X-CD-Roast definitely supports it and it's a non-program-specific standard. The only problem I could imagine would be that this 'Nero' program stores a history of all multisession CDs it has burned and then automatically recognizes them when you want to 'resume' one. If you've burned the first session with another program, it won't have such a record of course. You have to tell the burning program to read the old session data from the CD then first - depends on the program how to do it.
How Do I Copy an ISO Image from a CD to the HD to burn more CDs ?
Go with the CLI. Specifically:
i. Copy whatever data you want to put on the CD into a directory, which we'll call: /home/user/ whatever
ii. Make your image file, which we'll call "my_image.img" by running this command:
mkisofs -r -o my_image.img /home/user/whatever
iii. Burn it to CD by running this command:
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -data my_image.img
Of course, set the speed to whatever value you're comfortable with. My CD-RW can supposedly handle 24X, but it pukes above about 12, so I go with 8X to avoid coasters. Seriously, try the CLI and you'll never go back to Nero or xcdroast. They're nice GUI's but all they're doing is putting a fancy front end on the command line.
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