Re: How to make DVD/RW drive work with e.g., Slackware 12.

On Jan 25, 9:18 pm, Grant <g_r_a_n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:07:22 +0000, Peter Chant <REMpete...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dances With Crows wrote:

Yes, you have to do this. However, if it can boot from CD and not boot
from DVD, BIOS boot order is not the problem.

Another question, will other/older distros boot from DVD? There is a bios
issue with some systems. I personally know little of this but it has been
discussed in alt.os.linux.slackware

Yes, but the noise level in a.o.l.s is a little high at the moment ;)

Alternate slack-12 boot methods are available, PXE and USB, in the
usb-and-pxe-installers directory on the install DVD. See the READMEs.

Grant.
--http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/

Here is another thought. Can I just mount the dvd image on /mnt/cdrom
and then install from that? I already mounted it on /mnt/cdrom. But I
assume that I could only install to a different partition, based on
the fact that you can't be your own grandpa. Still that is an option
I will explore.

That doesn't attack the larger problem of how to get the DVD drive
working in DVD mode, however. My bios dates to 2000 and it doesn't
have a DVD device as a boot option, only CDR. I can't do anything with
a movie DVD either.

.

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