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