On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 09:11:04PM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I want to burn an iso image onto a rewritable > CD (CD-RW) with k3b. > > I loaded the empty CDRW medium into the burner. > > I started k3b. > > Top left it says: > > "Empty CDRW-medium" > > I pressed "Burn ISO". > > A dialog pops up, asking for a ISO image > which did select. > > Then it calculates the Hash and asked > me "Please insert an empty medium" > > "Okay", I thought, "may erasing helps!" > > I choosed "Erase CDRW". A dialog pops > up and offers "Start", which I pressed. > > Instantly another error dialog pop up, which > seems to be presented by another, foreign > OS...it looks so familiar, saying: > > "Found medium: Empty CD-RW medium > Please insert rewritable CD medium into drive." > > Lost? > > What went so badly here?
Try to run k3b not by clicking icon, but from console and repeat writing cd. Sometimes "userfriendly" gui programs write something useful to STDERR. BTW great phraseology!