Re: Formatting CDs

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 11:20 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >>> I don't know whether I got a reply to my question of how you format
> >> a
> >>> CD-RW using gnomebaker?
> >> I don't think anyone managed to be sure he understood your question.
> >> I know I didn't. Please define "format a CDRW".
> > 
> > Well its discouraging since I expalined it several times. I want to do
> > to the CD-RW the same thing you do when you formatted a floppy. Once it
> > is formatted you could mount it and use it like you use a hard drive.
> > Copy files to it using cp, remove files from it using rm, etc.
> 
> The only media I know capable of this is DVD-RAM.
That was my original point. You can format CD-RW under windows and use
them under fedora but you can't format them under fedora.
Why not one might ask?
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