Haven't had a chance to try it myself yet under Linux (not enough time and maybe too chicken), but the howto claims that as long as your hard drive isn't doing any *intensive* work, you can do other stuff while burning the CD unlike with windows packet mastering software. The howto claims you can browse the net and even compile a kernel without a problem on a fast machine. Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Tsaran" <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Brent Harding" <bharding at ufw2.com>; "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 6:15 AM Subject: RE: burning CD's in linux > While on the subject... > Do we have the same issues under Linux when burning CD's as we do in WIndows? > I mean in particular, unavailabnility of the OS for other tasks while burning > the CD... > Best,V > ic > > >===== Original Message From Brent Harding <bharding at ufw2.com> ===== > >Oh, does it benefit to have my other CD-ROM and hard drives emulate scsi > >too, suppose I can't do it to the drive my root file system is on. > >At 07:45 PM 4/15/01 -0500, you wrote: > >>You must set the burner up to emulate scsi. You need to read the howto and > >>work through it. > >> > >>======= > >>Kirk Wood > >>Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > >> > >>Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it. > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Speakup mailing list > >>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
