USB cdrw [was Re: more info Re: [lug] wierd rh7.2 install failure]

[Nate Duehr]

Ummm... hmm, it's at home, but it's an older (read: slow writer... 4X I
think) Sony that was actually packaged with and for MacOS -- had a MacOS
9 driver disc with it and that was its original use at my house.  It
actually works MUCH better under Linux than MacOS, but ... haven't tried
it under OS X (yet).

I didn't have to do anything at all for the installer to see it, it came
up supported as a usb mass-storage device.  (similar to the other thread
here today about the CompactFlash readers).

Quite frankly, I just tried it on a whim (didn't want to deal with
booting the laptop to some other OS and bootstrapping Linux to wipe out
the other OS) and it worked.  :-)  Gotta love it when new(er) hardware
just starts working in some release of the kernel -- I love that, and the
folks doing the kernel hacking for USB deserve a big THANKS for the USB
support.

I was mildly surprised that the default kernel on the 7.2 discs arlready
supported it too... GRIN.  :-)

Nate, nate at natetech.com

Hugh Brown wrote:

> what brand of usb cdrw and did you have to do anything special to get
> the installer to see the drive?
>
> Hugh
>
>  Even cooler was loading it a while back -- RH 7.2 loaded
> > beautifully from a USB CD-RW drive after booting from floppy disk.
> >
>
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