On 26 April 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: > Message: 11 > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:57:25 +0100 > From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Message-ID: <200804261657.25885.cannewilson at googlemail.com> > <snip> > The support page for the Dell Dimension 4300 is dated 2001. If that's > the approximate age, it's quite possible that it doesn't read DVDs. > My Packard Bell of similar age sometimes can read one, sometimes > can't, but it's not really supposed to, I think. Anne: This is something that worked fine, for several years. It was my box, before my daughter got it, and I used the DVD drive, without problems. That it works OK in MS Windows XP and that I can boot the box from the same DVD, without problems, has me leaning more toward a problem with CentOS 5 Mounting the DVD, in that box. If it is a HW problem, I would think the problem would also appear in Windows and when I boot from that DVD. However, that it works OK, in 2 other Desktops, would possibly indicate a HW problem in that box. TIA, Lanny