Having just loaded M7.0 I am stuck getting the CD-(re)Writer to work. The
unit is a Plextor 8/4/32A and I had to set
hdc=ide-scsi
in the loader, and
insmod ide-scsi
to include the module, whereupon I can mount and read a conventional CD.
However when writing I clearly need to make a filesystem somehow before it
is written. How do I do that? Is there a recommended piece of software?
Obviously it won't do it at the moment.
The CD was from a PC-Plus (UK mag) cover disk and if I am happy with it I
will put up 7.1 etc. My other systems are all RH5.2. I was intending to
upgrade to the latest 6.x but the optimised Pentium kernel etc was
attractive since I do a lot of numerical calcs.
BTW despite requesting NO Graphics, in particular NO KDE, I still find
various packages installed such as
kdelibs-1.1.2-14mdk
kdesupport-1.1.2-11mdk
but no other and
XFree86-libs-3.3.6-4mdk
XFree86-xfs-3.3.6-4mdk
xloadimage-4.1-4mdk
xpm-3.4k-7mdk
xscreensaver-3.18-3mdk
xtraceroute-0.8.14-7mdk
!!!! and probably others that I haven't yet spotted. Any reason why? I
want to run the system without X using another machine as the X server.
Comments svp.
John
