On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:11:05 +0000
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 4:55 pm, Miark wrote:
> > Anne,
> >
> > What problems? I scsi-emu my DVD drive and I've never had a hiccup
> > reading data CDs, music CDs, or with copying.
> >
> > Miark
> >

> I seem to remember that if you did the install from that drive, there would be 
> problems in that the software installer would not be looking at the right 
> place to find the disks.  I'd have to check back to see exactly what was said 
> about this, but I think it was so.

Maybe I missed the point. If you install Linux from the DVD drive, and then later
switch from IDE to SCSI emulation, that would confule urmpi. Is that what you mean?
 
> It's worth remembering that just about anything he wants to do can be done on 
> that disk without scsi-emulation, so why risk problems?

I think using K3b is _more_ dangerous because of the changes it makes directly to 
fstab (if you let it).

Damned if you do, damned if you don't, eh?

Miark


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