DVD Only Install...

[Luciano Rocha]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 05:31:07PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:06 +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:20:58AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > As I said in a separate message I can find no way to have these programs
> > > format a CD+RW. An example execution line would help.
> > 
> > k3b: Tools -> Erase CD-RW, select Erase Type -> Complete
> > command line: cdrecord -v -eject dev=/dev/cdrom blank=all
> > 
> > Don't forget to unmount the cd, if it was automatically mounted.
> 
> Once again erase is not formatting.

Then as what filesystem are you trying to format?

CDs are often used with the ISO9660 filesystem. That's a read-only
filesystem, that isn't formatted but burned directly to the media.

UDF is another filesystem, that can be used with CDs and supports
read-write. read-write directly with CDs (CD-RW and DVD+/-RW), though,
only via packet writting.

According to the documentation (in the kernel,
Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt), the way to use packet-writing
and udf is:

1. low-level format the media:
 a) cd-rw:  cdrwtool -d /dev/hdc -q
 b) dvd-/+rw: dvd+rw-format /dev/hdc

if dvd+rw, then:
 2) mkudffs /dev/hdc  # format the disc
 3) mount /dev/hdc /cdrom -t udf -o rw,noatime # mount the disc

if cd-rw or dvd-rw:
 2) pktsetup dev_name /dev/hdc  # set packet-writing and init the filesystem
 3) mount /dev/pktcdvd/dev_name /cdrom -t udf -o rw,noatime # mount the
    disc

These utilities are available in the package udftools:
yum install udftools

Hope this helps.

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lfr
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