burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . . .

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Now Eric S. Raymond's rant about the (un)usability issues in Linux 
(http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/luxury-part-deux.html) makes sense . 
. . .

I'm trying to get my CD burner to work.

First I tried working with ide-scsi emulation, but after some 
corrections in a previous thread, I've given up on that.

However, I can't figure out xcdroast or cdrecord without spending hours 
studying and/or burning a coaster or two in experimentation, and 
eroaster refuses to recognize my CD-RW.

I've used eroaster before (and it wasn't intuitive; I wasted a few 
blanks on that program before figuring out how to burn an .ISO _image_ 
instead of the .ISO _file_), so that's what I'm leaning towards. But 
I've been unable to get it to find the burner/reader (I'm on sid, 2.6.x 
kernel).

I'd be thrilled if anyone could tell me how to get eroaster to see my 
burner, or alternatively, to point me to a relatively intuitive burner 
application.

Thanks!

--
Kent