[vox-tech] Heretical WinXP Q re: burning Knoppix CD's

Rick Moen vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:59:07 -0700


Quoting Richard Crawford (rscrawford@mossroot.com):

> Any recommendations for software?  I'm not all that keen on paying money
> for such software if I can avoid it.

I recommend burning a Knoppix CDR (or DVD), and then booting it.  It
comes with cdrecord, k3b, etc., and reliably auto-recognises hardware
better than anything else on x86, bar none.

(Generally speaking, if the answer is a piece of Win32 software, you're
asking the wrong question.  ;->  )

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