Maybe somebody here can explain to me the way Yast did to recognise and mount my cdrecorder and cdrom; Maybe I could reproduce it manually. a. Rob Freeman escreveu:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva" To: "SLE" Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 7:22 AM Subject: [SLE] how great SuSE is: trying another distro you discover that...Slackware 9.1 can't find my /media/cdrom as SuSE can

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BACKGROUND==SuSE 8.0 just works fine to me. So I'm afraid of making some upgrade that can corrupt my system. I'm giving a chance to trying new kernels with newer Gnome and KDE: I decided to install Slackware 9.1.

THE PROBLEM==I have two devices for reading cd-rom: /media/cdrom (in SuSE it points to my Creative 4x CD-ROM reader); and /media/cdrecorder (in SuSE it points to my LG combo CD-RW + DVD-ROM) Untill this moment I don't understand why Slackware 9.1 had found LG combo device as /mnt/cdrom and yet not found the another drive (Creative CD-ROM reader). It was so easy with SuSE...Some ideas? (What had SuSE done automatically that shoudl be make manually in Slackware?) a.

I would think you should post this on the slackware mailing list.

http://www.slackware.com/lists/

Rob

-- Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva Bibliotecário FIOCRUZ-Centro de Pesquisa Aggeu Magalhães

On Monday, 17 of May 2004 17:08, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote:

I'm happy with SuSE 8.0: it's stable and I can connect to internet with my winmodem hsp56 based on the humble pcchips mobo M598lmr, play and record cds, for writing i have Abi Word, and Gnumeric for spreadsheets. Although I want to try newer versions of Abiword, Gnucash, etc. I´m avoiding greater risks for SuSE 8.0. I know some people have to make a clean install and anothers have reported some programs and dependencies became corrupt with upgrades. In addition, restoring the system for a point back is not an idea you could count by if you want to make a downgrade (if repented).

i understand your point very well, as a SuSE user since 6.4. Some versions did a lot of problems after updating and the only solution was to clean install and two days of configuring :-) however between 8.0 and 9.0 with updated kde (i work on ftp version) is a huge gap (exactly speaking 1.0 ;-) and it is worth to install it.

So it was the time to try and compare SuSE with another distro (you never know what you are losing when you don't keep your mind open) at the same time I can check a newer KDE (3.2) and Gnome (2.4). Learning Slackware is just an exercise for increasing my knowledge about linux - "learning is the best way to keep your mind youg" ;)

I'm sure you will be back to SuSE as you like yast :-) all the best, -- Marek Chlopek

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 17:29, Stephen W wrote:

My opinion (MNTBHO): When I was in the Windows environment I learned quite early to not to try to upgrade a version.

I think that's very true, I personally consider my home cut of windows as something with about a 2 years max shelf life. Usually by then, if not earlier, I'll re-install everything from scratch and it will overhaul completely my computing experience. Linux (any distro) certainly has it's pains in doing this, but I would say that it's not as bad as Windows as long as you consider yourself at least an intermediate level user. Most of the time, it tends to be about getting mods up to date with the kernel, you lose your sound or display, etc. With Windows, there's things like registry bloat and conflicts, spyware, worms, etc. I simply won't bother upgrade Windows ever, whereas I will occasioanlly with Linux. I think the Registry is probably the single biggest reason for this. However, having said that, I tend to back up my data and re-install no matter what OS I'm talking about...:) There is one downside to that, however - some config aspects of Linux involve a lot of hard work and research, and starting over again can really be a pain. The big advantage is if the new version you're installing is better at configging your hardware for you... Cheers, J.C. -- John Coldrick www.axyzfx.com Axyz Animation Houdini/Renderman/Discreet 425 Adelaide St W 416-504-0425 Toronto, ON Canada jc@axyzfx.com M5V 1S4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Campbell's Law: Nature abhors a vacuous experimenter.