DVD Only Install...

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:43 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:

> > 
> > At the risk of being personal and too specific , I am a diabetic, Every
> > week I produce a list of my glucose readings. I save them to a floppy
> > and put them into a filing cabinet. To be up to date I also place the
> > file on a CD-RW (so we have a 700M CD with a single 400K file). Once out
> > of every 10 times when I write to the CD it complains that the CD is no
> > longer writable. Never mind that Fedora (as far as I know) has no
> > program to format a CD-RW. And this is progress. No way.
> > --
> > =======================================================================
> > You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is
> > that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham,
> > "The Circle"
> > =======================================================================
> > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
> > 
> 
> Fedora does have a method of formatting a CD-RW and DVD-RWs, K3b will do
> it for you if necessary and cdrecord and dvdrecord have CLI options to
> do so.  I've used them for a couple years now.
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.
-- 
Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam at sbcglobal.net