On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:54:14 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > I am not aware that one can do something to a CDROM using Windows which > will allow Linux to use simple cp, rm, etc. commands to modify the > content of that CDROM. Are you sure you have this right? I think it's a massively bad idea, and expensive, and slow, and looks to be error prone, but: "Packet writing is an optical disc recording technology used to allow writeable CD and DVD media to be used in a similar manner to a floppy disk. " <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_writing> At least the third time this wikipedia article has been posted to this thread :( -Thufir