Looking for an easy way of making a iso DVD

[Peter Reed]

Bob Chiodini wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 17:21 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
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>>On 11/3/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
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>>>>>>I am looking for an easy way of making a iso DVD. Could someone please
>>>>>>give me some advice?
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>>>>>k3b will do it.  It's under Tools.
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>>>>Thanks, Bob and John. K3b seems to be useless, as one needs a ready
>>>>iso file, and what I am looking for, it is a simple way of producing
>>>>the iso file.
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>>>In k3b click on  File> New Project > New Data DVD Project
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>>>Drag and drop your files to the DVD window and then when you click
>>>burn, only create the ISO.
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>>>Done it and it works.
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>>>If you mean a DVD as in Movie with the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS
>>>directories, that is authoring the DVD more than creating the ISO.
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>>True, k3b does produce an iso DVD, however not bootable... Can one use
>>k3b to make it bootable when copied into a DVD disk?
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>>Paul
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>Paul,
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>"Easy" probably not.  Supposedly mkisofs can create DVD iso images, but
>I've never tried it.  Take a look at the man pages for mkisofs and
>mkbootdisk.  There is an explanation on making bootable CDs (man
>mkisofs), but it's rather complicated (at least to me).
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>I did not see a k3b option, but not all of the options are displayed
>running it under gnome.
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>Sorry not much help.
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>Bob...
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In K3b Settings, Writing, there is a check box under Projects, Data
Project Add system files.

Peter