Re: [luau] Help with Red Hat install of rwCdRom

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Can someone please help this person?

On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 16:12, webmaster@hawaiidakine.com wrote:
> Help.
> 
> I have tried for 2 days now to figure out the install from two how-to's
> for the new CDRW that I bought for use  on Red hat 7*.  (This box is 7.2
> uptodate.)
> 
> The OS on the box recognizes the Sony CDRW CRX195A1 just fine as an IDE.
> But I can't install the Recording/Playback software into the correct
> files.
> 
> Almost all of the files that are talked about in the 2 how to's I found
> are not on the 7.2 installation I have on the box.
> 
> Are these just bad how-to's? One I know now is too old for Red Hat 6*.
> They both say
> you must make the OS think the IDE CDROM RW is a SCSI. 
> 
> Ok.
> 
> They all,talk about hd?=ide-scsi, but don't tell where in the tree it
> is. Is it in /etc/grub or where?  Then it says to delete the /dev/cdrom
> and replace it with cdr/cdrw but not where to put it. 
> 
> It says under grub to add the line to  menu-lst for example.
> 
> menu.lst isn't showing any where on the system and neither are the SCSI
> modules
> for  srO, sr1 etc...  
>   Or the /dev  for the sr0, sr1 etc...
> 
> Can any body point me to a Red Hat how-to which shows where to place
> these missing files in the directory tree?
> 
> It seems impossible to know where to add a missing file like "menu.lst"
> on
> a Red Hat system as they have changed the tree structure and startup
> files several times
> since 6.*. (One of the reasons I don't usually use Red hat any more.) 
> 
> This box is for burning cd's only. So it has just the CDRW and a sound
> card on it and an  HD for the OS and ISO files. 
> 
> Thanks for any help or suggestions to point to a good how-to. 
> 
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