Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > with a standard dvd my cd-r just spits them backout. Will it write to a > standard cd-r? According to the manufacturer's web page, no. I haven't gotten the drive yet so I'm not sure from personal experience. I suspect I can trust them on this. > I think it's safe to assume booting from a dvd isn't a > major problem SuSE is doing it. Basicly what was done was just to allow > for a 4gig iso9660 filesystem. Okay, I already have a normal DVD drive on this box and I have been booting CDs from it but never a DVD since software isn't usually distributed that way. It is good to hear that at least one of the distributions is doing it. > cdrecord is your only option barring another OS. I remeber hearing about a > packet driver maybe being started, but don't know what became of > it. Standard usage of even cd-rw drives use cdrecord's -blank switch to re > prep the disk for a re-write. I was afraid of that <SIGH>. Oh well, since you have heard that cdrecord works with DVD-Ram it isn't that big a deal. At least there is a solution that works <GRIN>. Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
