Kevin McNeela wrote:
> in case this has been asked before iam totaly newbie.
> i have just purchased a new cdrw drive i was wondering deos linux support such drives.its a HP drive.
> thanks.
AFAIK you can't yet mount CDRW media as a read-write volume as you can
in Windows, but you can write an ISO image/WAV/UDF/whatever to it, as
you would a CDR disc, erase the disc, and write a different image to it.
Repeat ad-infinitum (for small values of infinitum).
Paul.
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
