Burning CDs on the EEE PC with Xandros

This could have been easy! Like, not difficult, and such... However:

Step 1: couple a CD/DVD-writer that is known to work with linux.

I found one at work, about the same size of the EEE by the way, and it at least could read CDs with stuff already on it.

Step 2: Enter a blank disc...

Nothing happened!

Step 3: Desperately search at online forums.

This lead to me installing all possible gnome burners that couldn't find the disk and the unusable but sort-of-working xcdroast program, from the time that gnome and kde where not really good yet. K3b is not an option because it needs to replace some kde libraries, which will break the special EEE kde completely.


Step 4: Use the final result from the forum: opening the GUI CDRecAgent via the command line:

CDRecAgent createcd -data /media/MMC-SD/partition1/102_PANA/

Step 5: have your disk burned!

This actually went much faster than expected, and I sort of like the command line input, but really Asus, was it so much more work to add this line to a program you already had pre-installed!!!

Now I need to find out how to deinstall the gnome-shit that I don't use...