How are data DVDs written under FC1 ?

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 07:30, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> 
>>Greetings  Everybody ,
>>
>>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 ?
>>
>>Thank you in advance for your time
>>
>>Kind Regards,
>>    Kostas
> 
> 
> You can make the iso the same way you do for CD's, but instead of
> dvdrecord (broken for iso's over "100 minutes") use the command:
> 
> # growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=your_very_own.iso
> 
> growisofs is actually a wrapper to mkisofs, so you can skip the
> middleman of creating an iso first, and just feed (most of) mkisofs
> options to growisofs to write directly to disk. growisofs has a man page
> now, so you can get details there.

Got them . Thanks very much .