Today I had the opportunity to work with an Asus EEEPC Netbook. Unfortunately it was a bit under the gun with 14 volunteers vying for my attention along with 5 customers who of course wanted to speak to me (instead of a volunteer). The EEEPC owner had an external USB DVD burner that she couldn't get working under Xandros Linux. Neither Brasero nor K3B were installed. What was interesting was that the DVD+RW tools were installed and dmesg revealed that Linux did see the CD/DVD+RW. Unfortunately Brasero did not and k3b was missing some dependencies so we couldn't install it. On the command line the following appeared to burn (very slowly): wodim dev=/dev/sr0 filename.txt However when I went to check the CD we couldn't mount it under another system...
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