[conspire] is there a minimum size iso that cdrecord will successfully write to a cd?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Darlene Wallach (wallachd at earthlink.net):

> Is there anything I can try with cdrecord? Does it appear
> that is where the problem lies?

Darlene --

This may be a silly thing to ask, and I'm not trying to patronise you in
asking, but did you _mount_ the CD-ROM?  Can you please cut-and-paste a
terminal session in which you type the command "mount" plus all lines
returned?

Also, please immediately after that, type "ls -al /mnt/cdrom", and
(again) include that in your command transcript.  If you
use a different mountpoint for your CDs, please substitute.



By way of comparison, on the system in front of me, the conventional
mountpoint for CD-ROMs is /cdrom, and the CD deice is /dev/hdc .  Here
is the sort of command transcript I'm speaking of:


rick at alfredo:~$ su -
Password: 
alfredo:~# ls -al /cdrom/
total 2
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1024 Apr  8  2004 .
drwxr-xr-x  22 root root 1024 Oct 19 12:46 ..
alfredo:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom/
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
alfredo:~# mount
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda8 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda9 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda10 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdc on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
alfredo:~# ls -al /cdrom/
total 1471
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Mar 11  2004 .
drwxr-xr-x  22 root root    1024 Oct 19 12:46 ..
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Mar 11  2004 BOOTCAT.BIN
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root 1474560 Mar 11  2004 BOOTIMG.BIN
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Oct 29  2003 benchmark
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Mar  9  2004 bin
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Oct 28  2003 boot
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Feb 26  2004 cerberus
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Oct 28  2003 cluster
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Oct 28  2003 documents
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Oct 28  2003 drivers
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Oct 28  2003 kernel
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Oct 28  2003 masterhd
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Mar  9  2004 mobo
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Oct 28  2003 storage
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Oct 28  2003 userguides
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    2048 Oct 28  2003 utilities
alfredo:~#