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Guest · Guest

My USB cd burner worked with 1.0.2 but now won't with newer versions.
Wizard lets me id the usb drive as the burner, but the assignment doesn't "stick". That is, when I run the wizard again, the burner assignment is blank. Known problem?

Thanks

Ian · Posted: Wed 31 Aug 2005, 19:54 Post subject:

Have you done an upgrade or new install with the later versions, if it is an upgrade you may have some issues with older settings if it is a new install you may have to look at the scsi emulation part of the wizard setup.

Guest · Guest

Always download new .iso of livecd and run from that.

Guest · Guest

No pup001 file on HD, so it's a new start with no memory each time.
Where is (what's the name of) the cd/dvd set up wizard source file.
Thanks!

Guest · Guest

I found the cdwizard scripts, but I'm afraid I'm over my head.
Found the following as the last sentence in the wizard help:

"USB CD/DVD drives are currently not supported by Puppy scripts."

But that's not quite true, since I can read from the USB CD, but I can't burn.

Ian · Posted: Thu 01 Sep 2005, 16:46 Post subject:

Were you using the DVD burner to burn CDs in Puppy 1.0.2, if so you might not realise that 1.0.2 uses the 2.6 kernel whereas later versions use the 2.4 kernel.
If you do a search of the forum you will find that there was a lot of discussion regarding 1.0.2 and CD burners, look in the multi-session section.

New Puppy Fan · Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 77 Location: Minnesota, USA

By the way... As long as there were mentioned kernels 2.4 and 2.6 (1.0.2 PL). What kernel the new Pyppy 1.0.5 release is based on? I assume that on 2.4. So how is possible to upgrade 1.0.2 version ( i.e. i686) to the newer stuff like Open office, Puppy Unleashed, etc.?

New Puppy Fan · Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 77 Location: Minnesota, USA

By the way... As long as there were mentioned kernels 2.4 and 2.6 (1.0.2 PL). What kernel the new Pyppy 1.0.5 release is based on? I assume that on 2.4. So how is possible to upgrade 1.0.2 version ( i.e. i686) to the newer stuff like Open office, Puppy Unleashed, etc.?

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

Guest · Guest

thanks for the tip, but am running old hardware with winNT.
Major reason puppy is so useful at the moment is that NT never has and never will recognize USB ports.

Seem to have cd burner running with 1.0.5 now! First run customized cd wizard script with first if-fi check commented out to run the new wizard instead of the old. Then in burn tab of combust, make sure 0,0,0 is entered as the burner address (got from cdrecord -scanbus). Then IT WORKS!

Flash · Posted: Wed 07 Sep 2005, 02:08 Post subject:

For what it's worth, Puppy has an another CD/DVD burning program, called dvd+rw-tools. This thread discusses it.