On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:27:18 +0000 (UTC) Thufir wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:26:57 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > I don't know what to respond to people who won't admit there is an > > advantage to being able to treat a CD-RW as if it is a hard-drive. > > calm down. Someone did respond about InCD, with the thought that it's > going to write to the whole disc, then wipe it, then rewrite to mimic the > functionality you're after. > > It may not really do what it appears to do at all. > > These are just people giving their best interpretation. It's a buddy > system, meaning you get further with a bit of sugar. > > > -Thufir Being the curious guy that I am, I just came back from Windows XP Pro in my dual-boot Win XP/Fedora 7 box. In Windows XP, I have the Nero CD/DVD burner with InCD option. First, I formatted an 8 cm (1,4 Gb) DVD-RW disk using Nero's "Prepare/Format re-writable disk" option. Then I wrote a number of different type files (.pdf, .zip, .html, .doc and .exe) onto the DVD-RW in succession (one after another, not in one burn). Just to test, I removed (using delete) the .doc file and it indeed disappeared from the DVD-RW disk. Then I wrote it back and booted to Fedora 7. Now that I'm in Fedora 7, I can open most of the files on the DVD. I didn't try the .exe because it is compiled for Windows and probably wouldn't work anyway. I'm not sure that this same operation could be repeated in Linux but I believe the OP asked whether the same thing can be done in Fedora. Can it? Regards Antti
