Go into setup and select HD Settings from the tabs above the window. You can enter the path to your image directory manually at the bottom, or click on Browse and you should see your directory tree. This is just to select the directory where mkisofs dumps the image it makes. Be sure that your user has permission for that directory. That is, if you can set it up for a non-root user. I don't seem to be able to do that with my latest installation. When you say "from" do you mean where you want to get the files from your hard drive that you want to burn to cd? That's not in setup, that's in Master Tracks (under Create CD). If you can't see your hard drive here, then I'd guess that there's a problem with the installation. Greg Bill Mills-Curran wrote:

It's the "from" that I want to add. Yes, I did go into setup, but I could do much with it.

I got tired of floundering and burnt the CD the old fashioned way with mkisofs and cdrecord.

Bill

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 02:57:52PM -0400, orbitz@ezabel.com wrote:

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Did you take the time to go through the setup and give it drives to write ISO's to? More information is required.

On Thu, 27 May 2004 14:33:58 -0400 Bill Mills-Curran wrote:

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I'm not much of a CD burner. I've used xcdroast to copy CD's, but I'm having problems getting it to use files from my hard drive. In fact, I can't even get it to look at my hard drive. What's the trick?

Thanks, Bill

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On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:52:07PM -0400, Andy Stewart wrote:

On Thursday 27 May 2004 4:38 pm, gma2004@verizon.net wrote:

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Start xcdroast as root, go to Create CD, then Master Tracks. You should see your directory tree in the right window. Select the files/directories you want and add them to the left window. Then you have to create the image. After that you can burn the image to the CD (Write Tracks).

I skipped a few tricky details, but that's the general procedure. Let me know if you want more.

I've found xcdroast alot more intuitive than k3b. You do need to first run it as root to do the setup stuff and to enable non-root users the privilege of running the tool. After that, it should be smooth sailing as described by Greg (above).

Let us know if you're still stuck on something.

Andy <snip>

Thanks everyone, The "Master Tracks" was they key, however, it's not very smooth, and that seems to be caused by not having a CD in the read drive. (My machine has a DVD drive and a CDR.) So, if I just have a blank in the CDR, xcdroast tries to read the DVD & times out. The time out is quite long. Once I get past that, I can get to "Master Tracks" and I can then make progress. All in all, though, I made better progress with less frustration with using mkisofs & cdrecord directly. Thanks for your help. Bill