misc linux questions -- was: Re: A easier way to create cd's using easy cd creator

[Janina Sajka]

You can create dvd's. It works basically the same way as recording cdr
disks. Of course, it starts with the hardware interface. You need a good
driver, and not all dvd drives are supported. But, once you get that
done, it's fairly straight forward.

The person giving you advice on partitions is giving you very bad
advice. You can perfectly well have an admixture of almost any kind of
file system on your drive. People do vfat, ntfs, and ext3 all the time,
for instance.

However, I don't believe you'll find pre-digested kernels with ntfs
support very readily. I might be wrong, but the basic problem is that
ntfs is proprietary to Microsoft, so gets people nervous around the
licenses.

Laura Eaves writes:
> Hi all --
> With all the discussion of CD burning being so difficult on linux, has 
> anyone successfully burned a DVD?
> I just purchased a pc with a DVD burner and hope to put linux on it, and it 
> would be nice if I could use the DVD burner -- not necessarily to copy 
> movies, but to store other things.
> Just curious.  When it gets here I will be diving into the linux thing in 
> earnest -- up till now i have been lurking but haven't had a machine to work 
> with.
> 
> Also, I have a question about file systems and partitioning.
> Someone on the list told me privately that you can't put 2 different file 
> system formats on the same hard drive -- such as fat32 and ntfs or whatever. 
> Is that true?  I have a large HD and wanted both linux and XP pro to be 
> accessible on that machine.  Can't I specify different file systems for 
> separate partitions?
> Sorry if this is an inane question.  Disk format and file system specifics 
> is not my forte.
> TIA
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sergei V. Fleytin" <fleytin at yandex.ru>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:40 AM
> Subject: Re: A easier way to create cd's using easy cd creator
> 
> 
> Hello, list,
> 
> For those of you who need an easy way to burn a CD under linux but
> don't want to mess with all kinds of menus and choices I would
> recommend a package called "burn" which I personally use. It is a very
> easy to use yet powerful frontend written in python that allows you to
> do a lot of things. Debian users can find ready to use package for
> this tool and others can go to
> 
> http://www.bigpaul.org/burn/
> 
> -- 
> With best regards, Sergei.
> 
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