Re: why am i not being able to write CD's in linux

[Chris Hewitt <g0pae manordat demon co uk>]

leosgohard wrote:

> hi there
> i am trying to write the ISO images of RHL 9.0 on CD's  using xCDRoast 
> and Nautilus's inbuilt
> Cdwriter utility .I am using the genuine 700 blank CD's for this.But 
> still both of them end up saying
> "not enough space on disk "( need at least 646 MB free ) .
> While doing this ...i must mention that
> my linux is installed on /dev/hda3   ----> 400 MB free
> but iso images were downloaded on  /dev/hda5  ---> 1.2 GB free    
> mounted on  /mnt/windows  (its a windows partition added in /etc/fstab 
> to mount at boot time)

I've only tried burning a CD with the files on a windows partition once, 
and it did not work (I don't remember the error message). As soon as I 
moved the files onto an ext2 partition it worked. I don't know if this 
is general or there was something else going on in my case, but you 
could try burning a small file located on an ext2/3 partition and see if 
it works.

Hope the helps

Chris