Evening gents. Last week I finally got around to downloading and installing LInuxmint 8 to a usb pen drive. The install seems to have gone perfectly and I REALLY like Linuxmint. Many things just seem to work out of the box including grabbing up the laptop's wireless connection. I installed the iso to a 2gb usb drive with the usb installer utility that you download from the same site. I quickly realised that if you install anything else on the drive you have used up most of the usable space left over after the install. I had been wanting to try RubyRipper for CD audio extraction since it is allegedly the closest thing to EAC for Linux. It was fairly easy once I got the command line syntax correct. It showed up in the menu just fine and I quickly went about setting up options. I decided to rip a CD just to try it and it got to the second to last track and stopped cold. What the heck? Then I noticed the warning dialogue that said the drive(usb)was nearly out of space so it quit. What to do? I then wondered if it would be possible to save it to a folder in Windows. So I went into the base directory of Windows C drive and created a folder and named it rubyripper. Then I booted back into the usb drive with LM8 on it and did the rip again directing the rip to be placed in the folder on the C drive. I navigated to it via the computer icon in LM8 and copied the location to clipboard (or whatever it is called in Linux when you right click and copy) and pasted that location in the "base directory" box under the "other" tab in RubyRipper's preferences. After the rip I could navigate there in LM8 and see and play the files. It had made a folder named "wav" and saved it there rather than my rubyripper folder. However, once I booted back to windows both the folders I made were gone and after rebooting to LM8 I could no longer find them either. Okay, it is obvious my little scheme did not work. What did I do and how to not repeat it? Is saving directly to a Windows partition from Linux possible? Does it take some arcane command line string to make it happen? I was simply looking for a way to save a rather large CD file since the usb space won't allow it. Thanks for any help.
Regards, Todd
Regards, Todd