Setting up a CD-R or CDRW drive on an IDE PC

Chris Lale

chrislale@users.sourceforge.net

Revision History
Revision 1.0	14th August 2002	Revised by: CTL
Initial release
Revision 1.1	28th August 2002	Revised by: CTL
Modified in response to comments. New sections added: "Checklist" and "Where to find out more".
Revision 1.2	31st August 2002	Revised by: CTL
Modified in response to comments.

Abstract

This article describes how to set up CD-R or CDRW cd-(re)writer drive on an IDE PC running Debian/GNU Linux 3.0 ("Woody").

Table of Contents

1. About this article

1.1. Copyright information
1.2. Bugs, errors and mistakes
1.3. Spelling, punctuation and grammar

2. Preparing for the installation

2.1. System requirements
2.2. CD (re-)writer drive details
2.3. SCSI emulation
2.4. Text editor
2.5. The adduser and deluser utilities

3. Changing the kernel

3.1. Precautions
3.2. Installing the new kernel
3.3. If things go wrong

4. Installing the basic software

5. Setting up scsi emulation

5.1. Installing the ide-scsi module in the kernel
5.2. Checking that the kernel is running ide-scsi
5.3. Modifying the lilo.conf file

6. Using the cd writer for the first time

6.1. Configuring cdrecord
6.2. Testing the cd (re-)writer
6.3. Making your CD (re-)writer available as a device
6.4. Burning a test CD

7. Adding a front end for X

7.1. X-CD-Roast
7.2. cdrtoaster
7.3. gcombust
7.4. GnomeToaster

8. Checklist

9. Where to find more information

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