Puppy2 won't save to CD: "dev/hdd write protected"

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bobanshirl · #1 Post by **bobanshirl** » Thu 31 Aug 2006, 10:20

Got another small problem,now that I can get on line with Puppy 2 I have decided to stay with it.Problem now is when I try to save to the RW/CD which has Puppy 2 burnt on it,it tells me that /dev/hdd which I presume must be my CD/DVD Burner drive,is write protected and is mounting read only.Every time I run Puppy I have to enter the details all over again.Any suggestions.

muggins · #2 Post by **muggins** » Thu 31 Aug 2006, 11:18

did you burn puppy as multisession, and if so, what did you use to burn it?

bobanshirl · #3 Post by **bobanshirl** » Thu 31 Aug 2006, 15:35

I used Nero but I couldnt see any mention of multisession am I missing something

#4 Post by **Flash** » Thu 31 Aug 2006, 20:55

Aha, if the burning program you used didn't say it was burning a multisession CD or DVD then it probably didn't. At least you now have a bootable Puppy you can use to make a multisession CD.

You should be able to boot it and then use Menu -> Multimedia -> Burniso2cd to burn a bootable CD, overwriting whatever is on the CD-RW you just booted from. Cool, huh? (In my experience a DVD-RW will work if you simply overwrite it, but maybe not a CD-RW in which case you will have to erase it first. Try it and see.)

Assuming you still have the Puppy iso on the hard drive somewhere, just mount the hard drive partition where it is (use the "Drives" icon on the desktop) so Puppy can see it, and then tell Burniso2cd where to find it.

bobanshirl · #5 Post by **bobanshirl** » Sat 02 Sep 2006, 14:46

sorry to say this didnt work.Does it matter that I have the ISO on a CD-R in the cdrom drive and a cd-rw in the cd/dvd recording drive

#6 Post by **Flash** » Sat 02 Sep 2006, 14:51

Hmm, I don't know. It might. Puppy could be getting tangled up trying to do the reading and burning simultaneously. Can you transfer the iso to a hard drive in the computer? It's only a ~70 MB file.

raffy · #7 Post by **raffy** » Sun 03 Sep 2006, 00:09

Multisession works only if the boot drive IS the RW drive. So you have to swap drives at times.

bobanshirl · #8 Post by **bobanshirl** » Sun 03 Sep 2006, 08:00

Hi Raffy Can you tell me how to carry out this operation.While I am here why does Puppy mount my cdrom and dvd drives as read only write protected.

bobanshirl · #9 Post by **bobanshirl** » Sun 03 Sep 2006, 15:01

thanks for all the replies on this I have eventually got it to work.

#10 Post by **Flash** » Sun 03 Sep 2006, 19:05

bobanshirl wrote:thanks for all the replies on this I have eventually got it to work.

I hope you plan to tell us how you did it, for the benefit of others looking for answers in this forum.

bobanshirl · #11 Post by **bobanshirl** » Mon 04 Sep 2006, 18:14

What I did was what several people told me to do: I put the iso in my ntfs partition and told burniso2cd where it was. Voila,I have it.

pmshah · #12 Post by **pmshah** » Wed 06 Sep 2006, 04:23

In nero you have an option of finalising the CD. If you do, no further writes are possible, even on a CD-RW disk.

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Puppy2 won't save to CD: "dev/hdd write protected"

Puppy2 won't save to CD: "dev/hdd write protected"

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