Hi Himanshu,

Let me clarify. I didn't mean hardware issue with your DVD drive, what
I meant was that there are some drives which don't have proper support
under Linux. Like my laptop's drive does not let me run Freespire or
Linspire. I later on found out that the drive is not supported forthe
way grub in these distros is configured. So I have a hardware issue
that way.

Regarding upgrade I guess that should not be any problem. As long as
you choose to upgrade, there should be no issues whatsoever. And
Mandriva offers an upgradation option. Upgradation will however be a
very time consuming process. Can take as long as 4 hours.

I hope this helps
Cheers
-Tarun

--- In SunCityJodhpurLUG@..., Himanshu Chauhan
<hs.chauhan@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Tarun,
>
> Had this been a DVD hardware specific issue, I can't understand why
nero is
> able to burn? Any ways I would like to use Mandriva 2007. But I have a
> problem,
> I have a pretty good amount of "compiled" software installed on the
current
> installation. "/home" directory is fine as it houses on a separate
> partition but
> all other (like root, usr etc) are on single partition. If I install
> 2007, I would loose
> the installations, which I don't want to! Any work around for that?
>
> Please send me the 2007 DVD if possible. My address is
> Himanshu Chauhan
> inDSP Audio Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
> 341 Nila Building
> Technopark, Trivandrum
> Kerala 695581
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
> --Himanshu
>
>
> Tarun Kant wrote:
> >
> > Hi Himanshu,
> >
> > You didn't mention which DVD burner frontend were you using on
> > Mandriva LE 2005. I am pretty sure it must be K3B. The problem sounds
> > DVD hardware specific. I have used the same version of Mandriva on my
> > laptop but never had an issue.
> >
> > Moreover, Mandriva LE 2005 had several issues with other things as
> > well. It was the first Mandriva, that is the one which changed from
> > Mandrake. Mandriva 2006 was good but also had some serious issues with
> > diferent things. Now Mandriva 2007 is out. I am using it for quite
> > some time now and find it pretty tweaked. I would recommend that you
> > go for an upgrade to Mandriva 2007. It came out free on DVD media with
> > LFY magazine couple of months back. I can copy it and sent it your way
> > if you want. Try this newer version and I am hopeful your DVD problem
> > might get rectified as well.
> >
> > Cheers
> > -Tarun
> >
> > --- In SunCityJodhpurLUG@...
> > <mailto:SunCityJodhpurLUG%40yahoogroups.co.in>, "H. Chauhan"
> > <hs.chauhan@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I am using Mandriva 2005 Limited editions on my Acer 3003 laptops.
> > > Since the very begining I am facing troubles in burning DVDs. I am
> > > able to successfully burn CDs but its not the case with DVDs. The
> > > driver either fails to read the DVDs and when it reads it
> > > successfully, OS says Input/Output error.
> > >
> > > Is anyone of you facing same problem? Why is it happening and is
there
> > > any solution to this? The same DVD I can successfully burn on a Win$
> > > session.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > --Himanshu
> > >
> > > --
> > > Himanshu Chauhan
> > > Systems Software Engineer
> > > inDSP Audio Technologies
> > > Technopark, Trivandrum
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> =====================================
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> System Software Engineer
> inDSP Audio Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
> Technopark
> Trivandram, Kerala
>
> M:(+91)-(999)-(518)-(5989)
>
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