[KLUG Members] software reboots system

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

>Got a problem that I've never ran into before. When using the cdrw, 
>(Phillips) with their software, for some reason, when at any point that 
>can't really be defined, it will go busy for 3 seconds, then Boom! The 
>system is shut down and coming back back on. Could this be a electrical 
>problem, or something else?

An IDE burner?

I've had IDE devices cause system reboots.

>Anybody have any idea of what's happening? 

Not exactly, but I'd wager your burner is flumoxed.

>Should explain that I'm trying to
>back up win98 to put in rh72. If this keeps happening, thinking very 
>seriously of just putting in rh72, then back up everything. On that, which 
>would be better?

So this is happening under Win9x or RH?

FIPS will let you shrink the Win9x partition to put in RH.  But I'd be pretty
certain you'll have the same burner issue.