Unable to Burn CD

[Cole]

I have a bunch of files from an old hard drive that I no longer have access to through windows. But with knoppix I'm able to open the files and burn them, I just can't move or delete them. Once before a friend of mine somehow burned some files onto a CD. But when I try to burn files onto a CD with knoppix's default burning software it gives me some awkward error and tells me to burn at a slower speed. Even at 1x I get that error.

Does anyone know how I would burn those files onto a CD?

[angor]

From the commandline, try this:
<code>
cd /where/your/files/are
tar cf - .|mkisofs -stream-media-size 358400|cdrecord dev=$DEV speed=4 -v -
</code>

The 358400 is for 700 MB, replace with 327680 for 640 MB. Before you run above command, run this:
<code>
cdrecord -scanbus
</code>

This will give you a list of "scsi"-devices and "addresses". You must replace the $DEV above with the address
associated with your burner, e.g. "1,0,0" (without the quotes).

This will not work with newer Knoppixes (>3.6?) if your burner is attached via usb.