Bug 27910 - Installer does not correctly setup up CD-RW drives so they can be used to burn disk
Summary: Installer does not correctly setup up CD-RW drives so they can be used to bur...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-16 01:00 UTC by Josh McGee
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-19 23:59:31 UTC
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Description Josh McGee 2001-02-16 01:00:44 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)


the installer does not seem to setup CD-RW drives so that they can burn 
disks out of the box. this could confuse new users

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install redhat on a machine with a CD-RW
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Comment 1 Arion Blishen 2001-02-16 07:41:01 UTC 
I got it to work by (may be beeter ways but I don't see why RH7.1 can't do this
automatically at install)

Adding the following lines to the end of /etc/modules.conf

options ide-cd ignore=hdd # tell the ide-cd module to ignore hdd
alias scd0 sr_mod # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd # load ide-cd before ide-scsi

Type the following at the prompt:
cd /dev && rm cdrom1 && ln -s scd0 cdrom1

May need to modify /etc/fstab

Also need a util like Gnome Toaster
Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-16 15:00:17 UTC 
We have fixed this in CVS since the Fisher beta.
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