as far as installing the hardware , just plug it in on the proper IDE cable and set it to the correct position (slv,mst,cbl) from there just make sure that your BIOS is set to auto detect or jump into it and tell it what drive it is for faster boots and reboots. next is installing some software, im no DVD pro so i wont even bother going into what software lets you do certain things... because i dont know. once the software is installed it will find the DVD burner on it's own. worst case it will have to run some configuration or test program which should be self contained.

good luck.