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Mark Jose wrote: > On Tuesday 14 August 2007 13:47, james kilty wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 13:20 +0100, Simon Waters wrote: >>> Changing to root. Your password is probably for "sudo" operations, not >>> for becoming root itself. Does root even have a password? (/etc/passwd, >>> and /etc/shadow should tell you that). >> /etc/passwd has >> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash >> and ends >> james:x:1000:1000:james kilty,,,:/home/james:/bin/bash > > That is usual in a (K)Ubuntu box. Root on one of those systems is not actually > enabled by default for use. The sudo command is used instead. > >>> Debian, and I assume (perhaps rashly) Ubuntu, use group permissions for >>> CD devices, so that /dev/hda (CDRW) here is; >> /dev/cdrw seems to be empty. no /dev/hda. >> > > You will find the cd/dvd drive in /media on a (K)Ubuntu system. It is going to > be called cdrom (which is actually a symlink to cdrom0). The device path > will be /dev/hdc, not hda which is usually reserved for hard disks. > Well that depends, if the PC has a Serial ATA hard drive then it is quite possible the CD/DVD drive is on /dev/hda James, do you know what make the CD/DVD drive is? > > I still feel the comment I made before about the disk either needing time to > be detected once you choose burn or perhaps media incompatability is most > likely. > That does sound likely. My NEC DVD writer takes a good 3 or 4 seconds to recognise a blank disc. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html