cdrecord --scanbus

[Robert N. Eaton]

Hans,

Tried to answer your post telling me that you used a distro of Ubuntu.  
I hit a wrong key or something and the whole reply (together with your 
original post) went to the bit bucket, to /dev/null, or maybe to another 
dimension. (Really wonder what I did, so I won't do it again.)

Anyway, you wrote that your distro of Ubuntu had Gnome Toaster (or some 
such ap) under Applications -> Accessories.  My version doesn't. :-(  No 
wonder I was getting bewildered. I just read the manpages for cdrecord 
and mkisofs (thousands of lines of "what to do and don't do it"), making 
me even more bewildered. As soon as I master aptget, I'll download a 
copy of whatever it is, and distance myself from the fearsome CLI.

Thanks,

Bob Eaton

PS. Still finding myself up to my ass in alligators, when all I really 
wanted to do was drain the swamp. RNE