[ILUG] DVD install

[Jason Corcoran.]

Can't remeber if it was Mandrake 7.x or 8 that had some sort of hardware 
autodetect at start up. I added a CD-RW to my system, and had mandrake on it 
at this point and it autodetected and set it up...

J.
On Friday 23 November 2001 15:53, Tom Mackey wrote:
> I am thinking of installing a DVD drive  in my home machine.  It is only a
> P200 with 64mb running Mandrake 7.2.   My main intetion is just to be able
> to install software from the DVD on Linux Format magazine.
>
> Should I get a 10 speed or 16 speed ( I heard mention that a more powerful
> PC is needed for faster DVD drives.  Could that be so?)
>
> If I plug it in where I had my CD is there much tweeking needed to get
> linux to recognise it?
>
> Tom Mackey

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