Mike wrote:
On Sunday 14 January 2007 16:15, Jan Elders wrote:
I think HG made a valid point. Look at the various threads in this list from newbies who are desparate and lost how to get for instance their DVD working.
His point was that XP could do this.
you forget the main point. I beg your XP was built in the computer when you buy it. Mine wasn't. I had to install XP on a previously Linux PC. and XP didn't see the DVD drive. In fact it was seeing the drive at install time, then forgot it afterward. I had hard time understanding than this drive was (for historical reasons) connected as /dev/hda (first drive), that is before the XP HD and XP didn't liked it. Linux didn't bother... So buy a pre-installed Linux box and voilà... jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Votez pour nous, merci - vote for us, thanks :-) http://musique.sfrjeunestalents.fr/artiste/Magic-Alliance/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org