On Sunday 18 November 2001 22:45, Crossfire wrote: > Heracles was once rumoured to have said: > > I had the chance to use a mate's cable connection the other > > night and downloaded the latest kernel source. My problem is > > that he put it on a CDRW disk (using windows) and my system > > does not even recognist that a disk is inserted. I know it > > can be read using something like easy CD creator in Windows > > but can it be done in Linux? Could anyone point me in the > > direction of a HOWTO etc. > > OK, there are a few points to note: > > CD-RW media is not compatible with all drives. Your CD-ROM > drive will need to support `multi-read' in order to read the > media. Most modern CD-ROM and DVD drives support this and will > work, however a number of older drives (including my old 24x > Mitsumi) don't. > > If you used Adaptec DirectCD, there is a good chance that the > disc is UDF and not ISO9660. If you used UDF, you will need > Linux kernel 2.4 as udf support was not introduced into the > kernel until the 2.4 family.
Kernel was 2.4.0-4. Thanks to all who answered. I now know a hell of a lot more about CDRW. Unfortunately my old CDROM might be the problem. My daughter's machine and 40X CDROM read the disk without a hitch. Transferred all across the network to my machine (Hence the kernel is now 2.4.14). Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
