On 3/14/06, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
On 14-Mar-06 Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 16:58 +0000, Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Can experienced persons recommend an external USB DVD reader and writer which works well with Linux? Also: would there be any problems writing files to it from filesystems on other machines which are NFS-mouted on the laptop?
Most modern drives are "BURN Free" and therefore protected against buffer under-runs so even if your network cannot keep up with the writes you should be ok.....However you are going to be careful on how you set up the burn process (a lot of GUI disk burning tools prepare an image first) and even with the more traditional mkiso followed by cdrecord you are going to have to make sure you create the iso on the NFS drive and then burn it from that location.
Just another thought...normally it is possible to replace the Laptop's internal CD ROM drive with a CDRW
The ISO would need to be created on one of the other machines (the SuSE 7.2, 2.4.4 kernel) since that's the only one with enough spare HD space.
In which case I'd recommend upgrading the laptop's harddisk. Does it look easy to replace, like Thinkpads, or buried under the keyboard like some Viaos?
Tim.