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The following is a section from David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual that didn't make it into the printed version of the book. It shows you how to create a slideshow using you...
If you'd like to put your system backup on to a single DVD instead of several CDs, run Mondo Rescue from the command line to create an .iso. Then burn the .iso to DVD.
In addition to the standard...
Your CD-writing program (whether it's cdrecord or one of the good graphical programs such as X-CD-Roast or K3b) reports that it cannot find any drives on your system, or it sees your CD-R/RW drive...
If you're using a 2.4 kernel and want to write a CD or DVD you'll need to know the SCSI bus address, or dev= number, for your CD/DVD writer.
cdrecord -scanbus will find it for you. This is wh...