CD Burner How

back in the days of 2.4 kernels we needed scsi emlulation to get CD burning to work.

dunno why RedHat does not configure this on its own.

anyway you need to determine the device file for your cd burner (as in /dev/hdd , /dev/hdc, etc.)

device files depend on which IDE cable the device is connected and wether its master or slave

now all you need to do is to pass the kernel an argument telling it to use scsi emulation with your cdwriter device

syntax is hdd=ide-scsi

in lilo you add this in /etc/lilo.conf for each kernel image under the append field.

then run lilo to update the bootloader

in case you're using grub (default for redhat 9) edit grub's config file (either /boot/grub/grub.conf or /etc/grub.conf) add it for each kernel image in the kernel field.

now if you don't know what are all these things I'm talkign about then this means you'll be better off with a more recent distro that configures these things on its own, get the ltest Mandrake 10 or Fedora.

cheers, Alaa