linux newbie cdwriting

[Advent Systems]

Daniel,
    Correction, the name of the programs is "apt" not "apt-get".
Bob Randal


Advent Systems 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...
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>>>    I'm new at this but maybe I can help:
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>>> 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. 
>>>   
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>> 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.
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>>   
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>> 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 :-)
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>>   
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>> 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.
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>>> I hope I helped,
>>> Bob Randal
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>> been nice, Bob
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>> later,
>> Daniel
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