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#4 Re: CD burning with a 2.4 kernel: how to configure Debian properly? Posted by simonw (84.45.xx.xx) on Wed 25 Jan 2006 at 17:44 "Of course could I upgrade to 2.6.X, but I just prefer to run my system as "clean" as possible:)" Me too, precisely why I don't run archaic software like 2.4 kernels without a very good reason. This is well documented elsewhere, we'd do better spending our time telling people not to run... sendmail 2.4 kernels Apache 1.anything Okay 2.6 is only just over two years old, but a lot of work was done to cdrecord and friends precisely to avoid the pain of specifying kernel options to write a CD. The sensible way to configure Debian to do this, assuming you have an IDE CD recorder, is definitely to upgrade to a kernel that supports this without unneeded emulation layers. The other day, I hot-plugged a USB CD recorder into my Debian Sarge box at work for the first time, one wget, and one cdrecord command to identify the correct CD device to use, and one cdrecord command to write the ISO, and I had a netinst disk for Etch. It is suppose to be this easy, lots of people sweated blood and tears to make it this easy to write CDs, and you want to go back to the 2003 way of doing things.... Simon, only too grateful to have removed all that ide-scsi rubbish from his desktop PC at home.

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