linux newbie cdwriting

[Dave Andruczyk]

This is why I like gentoo.  To update, you run "emerge sync" and then "emerge
world -u"  it all runs by itself.  if you start it under "screen" you can
disconnect that session and leave it go and it'll compile the updates for you
in the background.  I installed gentoo about 2 years ago and haven't had to
reinstall once. (though I had to boot off a rescue CD when I did a few stupid
things) My box is jsut as current now as if I had installed it yesterday.  This
I see is one of gentoo's strengths. (it's weakness or strength if you look at
it differently is that it compiles everything from source when updating so it
can be time consuming,  but I just let it run in the background and don't
really notice it)


--- Advent Systems <adventsystems at verizon.net> wrote:

> Daniel,
> The Up-Dater that comes with FC2 is horrible. There are systems you can 
> download to get the updates that I found to work very well, one is 
> apt-get, the other is Yum. The only other updaters I used before were 
> SuSE's YOU, it works well but only gave me the updates that SuSE wanted 
> me to have. The other was mandrake's and after freshly installing a 1 
> year old distro (9.1) it told me "system was up to date and no updates 
> were available". So you see why I like updating FC2 much better. You 
> have to do a little extra work but it's much better and I believe that 
> what linux is all about. On the other end of the scale you have 
> mswindows update where you click one button and walk away, and you can 
> only hope what it's actually doing is good.
> As far as getting the modem to work I can say this. I tried 3 different 
> distros and nothing worked. I paid Linuxant $14 10 min. latter I could 
> fire up my win-modem with any of the distros. They have gotten a bad rep 
> because the drivers should be free but , and I agree, but on the other 
> hand someone did do some work to make the drivers available (and they 
> work well) so for $14 bucks, I figured that was money well spent to fix 
> a problem that was VERY vexing to me. I would still like to get the 
> modem working on my own (w/0 the linuxant drivers) but at that time my 
> dialup connection was my only access to the internet (i had to download 
> the drivers on my win2k side).
> Just somthing to think about.
> 
> Good Luck,
> Bob Randal
> 
> 
> Daniel Villarreal wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 17:22:18 -0500 Bob typed...
> >  
> >
> >>    I'm new at this but maybe I can help:
> >>    
> >>
> >...
> >  
> >
> >>DV-For CD writing I use a combination of X-CD-Roast or command-line.
> >>examples...
> >>For DVD-Writing I would use X-CD-Roast. I don't have a DVD-equipped
> >>system anymore. I have a lap top and that's it.
> >>
> >>BR-I have a laptop also and it take a lot more work to setup then most
> desktops but it can be done.  I'm using FC2/Gnome and thanks to the good
> people on this list now K3b for my CD writing.   Since you seem to like
> Redhat you might want to try the FC2 route.  Since you don't have a DVD drive
> there no point in me going into that.  
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> > I liked FC2, once it got Firewire capability, but when I tried to update
> it, it barfed... An OS is no good to me if I can't update it. I'm interested
> in FC3, but since this is my only system, I need to have something I know I
> can work with. I figured I'd go with free Red Hat
> >Enterprise Linux. Very vanilla, but I like the XWindows set up, it gives
> >me 1024x768 on my Vaio laptop. Now if I could just get the built-in
> >modem to work in Linux... I'm not interested in paying for commercial
> >Linuxant modem drivers.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>DV-BTW, I do depend heavily on external Firewire/USB2 drives for 
> >>storage. I never trust XP Home to not totally wipe out my laptop's hard >
> drive ;-)
> >>
> >>BR-Don't depend too heavily on the external USB2 drives as you only 
> >>source of backup.  I re-installed (3) different distros, thinking 
> >>something in that particular distro did not like my USB drive and in >the
> end it was the USB drive that malfunctioned.  As to XP Home, GET >RID OF IT!
> if you must dual boot, as I do, I highly recommend win2k.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> > I have some stuff written to DVD, and a lot is written to CD-ROM.
> >I never had any problems with Win2k, but a license for XP Home came with my
> laptop. I don't run anything that I don't have backed up on XP :-)
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>DV-I'd like to try and get my Palm Zire Z71 to work with Linux, I've never
> been able to set up a USB Palm device in Linux. I've used a serial cradle in
> the past with a Handspring device in Linux.
> >>
> >>BR-I'm still working on getting my palm to sync correctly, when I figure it
> out I'll drop you a line, and hope you do the same.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> > Palm is nice, but I wish I could run the emulators... If I get around to
> getting it set up in Linux, I'll write to the list.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I hope I helped,
> >>Bob Randal
> >>    
> >>
> >
> > been nice, Bob
> >
> >later,
> >Daniel
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 


=====
Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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