On Tuesday 31 May 2005 8:50 am, James Knott wrote:
Mike McMullin wrote:
Just exactly what is required to read these new DVDs?
A DVD drive. The DVDs are multi-layer not double sided. All you need is a DVD drive capable of reading multi-layer DVDs. I just bought a Samsung DVD-R/RW drive for $55 US (with a $50 rebate). My old drive was strictly a SCSI CD burner, and the SCSI card is not supported under the 2.6 kernel (actually, no one updated the driver). The Samsung drive was detected by SuSE 9.2 with no problem, and since I can not boot from a multi-layer DVD, I can install SuSE 9.3 when I have some time. Previously I would copy the DVD image to the HD over the network and install from HD. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9