external cd-burner

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: external cd-burner
started by: torp

Posted by torp on Feb. 02 2006,20:54

Can anyone recommend a good external cd/dvd writer for use in re-mastering dsl? I have a toshiba 2595cdt laptop, with a parallel port available, and a usb 1.1 port.

torp

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 03 2006,04:36

< http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ >

Posted by torp on Feb. 03 2006,15:58

Thanks cbagger..........I should have checked that first. Was hoping for a first hand report by someone who has an external burner.

torp

Posted by brianw on Feb. 05 2006,17:15

I have a pacific digital model 1930-24 cdrw USB 2.0 on my Compaq armada 7800 p266 with usb1.1 port. Works great for burning and ripping. I also have an external microsolutions backpack cdrw that I tested and could use but I use the newer one because the backpack is pretty old and seems to have problems with disks bigger than 650mb.

Posted by torp on Feb. 09 2006,16:47

thank you for the tip on the pacific digital model. I bought a memmorex model on ebay, and am not-so-patiently waiting for it to arrive. thanx again

torp

Posted by weirdo on Feb. 10 2006,18:34

Hello I request assistance in remastering, if you have time.

I have 3 partitions on my laptop: SuSE 10, WinME, WinXP.

I remastered the DSL, following this webpage's instructions:
< http://www.x-dsl.org/wiki/Remastering >

A couple of problems, however.

Cloop does not seem to be available for install from YaST, but when I type "modprobe cloop", no error occurs.

Also, "create_compressed_fs" was not available on SuSE, so I simply downloaded the binary from Yahoo, put it into /bin, and that seemed to work

I created a 51MB myremaster.iso file. I copied it to my WinME directory and booted into WinXP, loaded NERO and then burnt it. The CD did not boot, but it appears that there are files there (boot.* and KNOPPIX).

I downloaded DSL in WinXP and burnt it using NERO so I can't understand why this didn't work.

Thank you for reading this.
WeirDo

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 11 2006,22:06

Did you use all of the correct flags when you created the myremaster.iso file, ie: mkisofs