DVD burning issue - more info

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 12 March 2006 23:39, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> 
>>Greetings Anne,
>>
>>Anne Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:23, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm trying to burn a data DVD with k3b (FC4), but keep getting the error
>>>>"growisofs did not exit cleanly".  Any ideas, please?
>>>
>>>I tried xcdroast, and that seems to be looking for
>>>/usr/bin/cdrecord.prodvd, which does not exist.  I've not seen this
>>>before.
>>
>>That's perfectly logical . You see xcdroast is not a standalone programm
>>but actually is a frontend to cdrecord . In other words you see xcdroast
>>running with beautifull windows and the rest but the real job is done
>>by cdrecord. Now the original version of cdrecord was for writing CDs
>>( Audio, Data , mixed , you name it ) , cdrecord.prodvd is the
>>extension for writing DVDs . That's all that it is about .
>>
> 
> I thought it was likely to be that, but where does it come from?  
> --whatprovides says that no package provides cdrecord.prodvd

It probably told you that because it  tried to find it among the
programms that you have already installed . :(( The problem is
that am on a dialup connection and right now i have problems
to access the proper web page

freshmeat.net/projects/cdrecord/ - 101k - 11 Μαρ 2006

In other words go to the freshmeat web page of cdrecord and
read about the extension on writing DVD . It's the think you
are looking for .

>>#growisofs -R -J  -speed=8  -Z /dev/scd0 /Data
>>
>>
>>-R : stands for the Rockridge Extensions , well you need this
>>so that mkisofs will not produce a warning because you used -J
>>-J : stands for the Joliet Extensions . If the DVD you want to
>>write will be read sometime by a Computer running Microsoft
>>Windows then you need this .
>>-Z : you put the DVD Recorder device ( the above example was
>>when i was using a 2.4 kernel with the ide-scsi emulation )
>>/Data : is the directory that contains the data to be written
>>to the DVD
>>
> 
> I did think about that, but didn't have the confidence to handle multiple 
> directories and multiple exclusions.
> 

I never had problems with growisofs but in any case , you can always
make the *.iso ( as Paul suggested ) and burn the iso . It would be a
surprise if growisofs would fail to burn an *.iso .


> Anne
>