I want to put RedHat on my laptop, but am was wondering what I'd have to do, if anything, to make RedHat see my CD-RW/DVD combo drive.I also need to know what software to download so I can USE the burner and WATCH DVDs...?? If I can figure that out, I'll do it, as it's the only thing that's holding me back! I have a Dell Latitude C610 with an internal NIC/Modem, CD-RW/DVD combo drive, 256MB RAM, 1.4Ghz Processor, ATI Radeon Mobility Video card....Any help is MUCH appreciated.

Both xine and mplayer support DVD playback. You may need to grab libdecss too. If the drive is IDE, you need to trick linux into thinking that it is a SCSI device in order to do any recording. You will have to add append="hdX=ide-scsi" to lilo.conf (where hdX is either hda, hdb, hdc or hdd depending on your system). # cdrecord -scanbus should now list your writer (if not you may need to insmod ide-scsi first) and you can reference it in your burning programs (xcdroast is quite good) as you would any other SCSI device (eg 1,1,0) There is a CD-Writing-HOWTO which you may want to read.

Thanks. I just added that line at the end of my lilo.conf.anaconda file. When I tru cdrecord -scanbus, here's what I get... [root@tmri-sdlinux drewsc1]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. Any ideas?

Here's what my lilo.conf.anaconda file looks like. prompt timeout=50 default=linux boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message linear image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img read-only append="root=LABEL=/" append="hdc=ide-scsi" append="hdb=ide-scsi" ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "/etc/lilo.conf.anaconda" 17L, 269C 16,1 All

Have you got just a plain /etc/lilo.conf file? the one you mention is probably just a back up that anaconda made. If you want to use that file: # lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda If it still doesn't work, you can enter it manually at boot time at the lilo prompt: linux hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi If "cdrecord -scanbus" still doesn't find it: # insmod ide-scsi and try "cdrecord -scanbus" again.