How are data DVDs written under FC1 ?

[John DeCarlo]

Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:

> I wanted to ask how can someone write a data dvd under Fedora Core 1 .
> Am familiar with cdrecord and mkisofs as far as writting cds is concerned .
> I know that there is a command called dvdrecord which seems to work like
> cdrecord . But am rather uncertain on how to create a 4,5 GB  ISO image 
> in order to
> feed it to dvdrecord to do the writing . Does anyone have any 
> hints/examples ?

Kostas,

You already received a fine answer.

Let me add that using k3b makes the process very simple.  In particular, 
I just backed up 4.2 GB of files to a DVD using k3b.  And I only have 
about 1.5 GB free disk space.

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John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own