Writing CDs with Knoppix: cdrecord -scanbus fails as root

[epknp]

I have two optical drives on my system. I have managed to boot from one of the drives and I can read CDs from the other drive after I mount it. However, I cannot burn any CDs. cdrecord -scanbus fails with"no such file or directory, try cdrecord -scanbus".

I find that there is no ide-cd module in Knoppix. Is it possible to use Knoppix to burn CDs? I know that there is little tmp space available, but I would like to make some small (< 10 MB) CDs at least.

Any help is appreciated.

Running Knoppix (Jan 2007).

TIA.

[turbine]

Well, what version of knoppix are you using? I've been burning cd's using k3b using both the knoppix 4.02 dvd and the 5.11 cd versions.

[OErjan]

try running K3B (kIIIb) it should autodetect everything fairly well.

[epknp]

I started k3b as user and it autodetected both my drives. I was able to burn a CD, though applications were soon crashing due to OOM. I had lot of oomkill messages from the kernel.