K3b does not recognize drive

system:
built from scratch
everything compiled

Problem:
k3b woud not recognize my burner drive

Solution:
Added me to the cdrom group and cdrw group
reboot and afterwards it worked.

scp command to get and put files from remote machine

get a file from destination

scp user@192.168.1.100:/home/user/file /where to put it on your computer

to get an entire folder just add -r
scp -r etc......

Injecting a file into a server

scp file user@192.168.1.100:/home/localfolder

option -r for folders

declaring DVDRAM on fstab

After installing gentoo 2006.0 for the first time I realized that I didnt have access to my DVD-RAM drive so this si what I did opened a terminal ( xterm) and as root I did mkdir /mnt/dvd /This folder doesnt exist in gentoo so you have to creat it vi /etc/fstab / You have to edit your /fstab file since the one Gentoo creates >only declares essetial boot devices e.g: HD, /boot, etc /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd ext2,udf,iso9660 noatime,noauto,users,rw 0 0 NOTE: I added this line at the bottom of the file. NOTE- DVD-RAM : To write DVD-RAM's you NEED to have "noatime" in the fstab

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