Paulkruger

I have tried to use this to burn a bunch of MP3's to disk as an audio CD.

I created a project with the files. I clicked BURN then get a progress bar bouncing back and forth says "Normalizing Files" Left it running last night while watching TV. Four hours later I checked and it asked me to save the project and had ejected the CD. I thought "Great" and went to test to see if the CD played. It was still blank.

I opened the saved project and clicked BURN again awhile ago. Started the same process of "normalizing" I stopped it because it does not appear to work...just waste time.

Did I miss something or is there a bug that prevents Brasero from actually burning MP3 files to a disk as a normal audio CD. Is there something better that will actually work for this?

It was impossible to create any kind of report after the system was wiped out...I just reinstalled and made a partition image with Clonezilla just in case. I just ment the generic set of "drake" utilities such as XFdrake, drakebackup etc were all wiped out when I uninstalled gzine packages.

I saw the list but they were greek to me. I assumed that nothing unrelated to a media player would be removed, expecially such things as the package manager and Gnome itself?

There was no warning of any kind telling me that anything being removed would destroy my system. I was trying to get a DVD player to function and had new packages with codecs for xine and was instructed to first remove the old version before installing the new...that is ALL I marked for renewal, gxine...?

Why would it remove drake, my financial software and the package manager itself ??? That is just dumb ??

I can't put it back because I can't even log in...that was also destroyed.

After a total wipe and reinstall all was going rosy until I used the package manager to un-install gzine only to see it start to wipe out "drake" etc. Now I cannot even log in to the very different looking login screen. It does not say my login failed...it just does nothing then displays the login again. I have a backup this time but can't start drakebackup to restore it?

This is becoming more trouble than it's worth and I am afraid I will remain stuck with Windows forever !!!

Why in the %^$# would the package manager kill itself and two days of setting up when the only thing I marked for removal was gxine media player ?

How do I restore my saved backup?

I am lost and about to give up on Linux !!! HELP

Do I type that exactly as you show or do I need to figure out the path to the packages...which I have no clue where they are.

I did run as su. Mandriva 2009 64 bit. But if rpm is broken how do I install an rpm?

Remember I am new to this. :unsure:

I assume it is on the install disk if I had a clue what it is called and where to find it.

I get this:

-bash: urpmi: command not found

what next?

I am new to Linux so be gentle with me !

I was uninstalling a few games I don't want and when I clicked the "Apply" the package manger just vanished. It is also gone from my menu and the computer icon that was used to manage the system no longer functions. Says file not found.

It seems the package manager has trashed itself and I don't know how to get it back short of reinstalling which I really don't want to do AGAIN.

Any help is appreciated.

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