Re: How to make DVD/RW drive work with e.g., Slackware 12.
- From: et472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Black)
- Date: 26 Jan 2008 18:53:50 GMT
"john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" (john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
On Jan 25, 9:18 pm, Grant <g_r_a_n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:There's two issues here, the booting and the reading.
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.
If you can't mount the device, then you might check the box to make
sure it really can read DVDs. I changed my CDRW drive, and the new
one was listed as a DVD drive during the boot process, even though it
wasn't. On a later version of my distribution, there's no word of
"DVD".
Or perhaps the drive is dying. I had to replace my DVD drive (read
only) because it was generating massive amounts of error messages
every time I used it. I finally replaced it when I couldn't read a
DVD.
Watching movies may require the addition of some things, because
the DVD standard is not open, and some or many distributions won't
ship all set up to watch DVD movies.
The bios thing is about setting which drive to boot from, it
should't be about CD or DVD, but about drive (ie hard drive, floppy,
CD). If it says "CD" that should be irrelevant, because in order
to have a bootable DVD, it has to compatible with the CD to
some extent.
Michael
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