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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Flaig, Benno wrote:
> >
> Thank you.  Perhaps some people would find it useful.  However,
> I think most people here are using old hardware and don't have 
> CD burners (I could be wrong).

We have some pretty old computers but people keep giving us working CD-ROM 
burners and now we have three of them.  They must be replacing them with 
faster ones.  I have DOS CD-burning software that I have not yet tried.  
What would I need to burn CDs with linux?  A different kernel?

Our CD burner takes 1/2 hour to copy a 1 hour music CD.  At 2x burn.

The only CD we burnt was a copy of a CD-burning program for Windows.  We 
might make a copy of SW71 some day.


 
> > Is there a need to have a bootable CD version downloadable?
> 
> Perhaps.  However, I think most people burning a Linux CDrom
> would prefer to fill the CD with a more powerful distribution
> (like Knoppix).

I like basiclinux.  The ready-made CDs seem to include things I don't want 
like desktops.  It might be fun to have a CD of everything I got working 
with basiclinux to try on friends' computers but I am not capable of that 
for a while yet.

 
> > Whom should I contact or to whom should I send my Image to 
> > decide upon?
> 
> Does anybody reading this (who has a CD burner) want to try
> this?  


I am not going to download a lot of stuff by modem to burn to CD.
I can try making something small given enough detailed instructions.  I 
have never burned anything to CD with linux yet.