CDR and RedCrap 8

Alan Dayley plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:01:15 -0700


On Monday 31 March 2003 16:15, Michael Vanecek wrote:
> Has anyone had to deal with the hell of trying to get a CDR working on
> RH8? Any pointers to a suitable method of suicide? It continuously
> undoes everything I do, bypasses my symlinks and creates new driver
> references, undos my fstab entries and all in all craps on me. I'm usin=
g
> a stock install and as a second CDrom drive I put in a CR-4804TE - and
> I'm beginning to feel like I'm working on a Microshaft box. Since when
> did Redscrew think it knew what I wanted?
>
> The idea of having to reinstall Redscrew all over again is making me
> rethink Linux...
>
> Peeved,
> Mike

=46rom the tone of this and your follow-up emails, yea, I'd say you are p=
eeved.

If you would provide more detail on what happened when you first put the =
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in, what error messages, if any, did you get, what settings are you chang=
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and re-changing, etc., someone may be abled to begin helping you resolve =
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issue.  The information above is too undefined to start down the road to=20
helping.

A simple test would be to boot from a Knoppix disc.  It is famous for fin=
ding=20
and automatically configuring all kinds of hardware.  If it works there y=
ou=20
can either go to Debian, on which Knoppix is based, or that can be proof =
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"a Linux" can make it work so Red Hat should be possible to work too.

Drop the vitriol and give us info, then we can help.

Alan