[Wylug-help] Advice

[Jon @ RossLUG/ELLUG]

  Agreed!

most things like disk drives or cdroms/dvdroms just plug and play. It's 
been a long while since anything like that hasn't just worked.

Jon


On 23/10/10 22:58, Roger wrote:
> On 22/10/2010 13:50, Pighills Alison wrote:
>> I wonder if you could possibly give me some advice –I have just bought
>> my daughter a Dell Mini 10 netbook which runs on the Linux operating
>> system and I would like to buy a USB connecting DVD/CD drive for it –do
>> I need to buy something specific to ensure that it will be detected?
>
> I don't know the answer myself, but I'm optimistic.
>
> If no-one comes forward with a definitive answer, I suggest you look 
> at http://www.linux-drivers.org/ which may help.
>
> Otherwise, I 'd suggest simply trying it - Linux supports an amazingly 
> large variety of hardware and USB drives seem to follow well defined 
> standards so I'll bet you a pint that your daughter's USB DVD/CD drive 
> 'just works'.
>
> As a related test, my wife recently bought a Kindle ebook reader, 
> which uses a USB connection.  I've just plugged that into my Linux 
> (CentOS) server and a moment later a file browser window opened 
> showing its contents.  I was confident it would and it did.
>
> I've no specific knowledge of the Dell Mini 10 netbook, or which 
> version of Linux it runs, which could be significant, but I bet you 
> any recent version of Linux will do what you want without needing any 
> technical tweaks.
>
> My advice is just to 'go for it'.  Come back if you have problems, but 
> expect it to just work!
>
> Roger
>
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