OK - I have just found the CD-Writing FAQ's on the web. No doubt I will
find my answers in that.
Sorry to bother the list, although it would be better in setup if when the
CD-Writer was detected (LILO append='hdc=ide-scsi' was set automatically),
also to set /etc/fstab to /dev/scd0 rather than /dev/cdrom which is
sym-linked to /dev/hdc (in my case)!
John
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
>
