Burning ISO File to DVD

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 20:20 -0400, Michel Matte wrote:
> I am trying to burn the ISO image Fedora to DVD with the folllowing command:
> 
>     growisofs   -dvd-compat   -Z   /dev/dvd=FC-5-x86_64-DVD.iso
> 
> and I get the message :-(dev/dvd:media is not recognized as 
> recordableDVD:  0
> 
> I have a an Acer computer with 64-bit Xeon running Fedora Core 5 but I 
> wish to do a clean install from DVD.  The DVD burner according do 
> `cdrecord -inq`  is a LITE-ON  DVD SOHD-16P9S rev FRS3  which seems to 
> be Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM .  The DVD records are DVD-RW 4.7GB.

That's rather easy to see.  It's a DVD-ROM, not a DVD-RW.  It's not a
DVD burner.

> How do I fix this problem?

Get a DVD-RW drive.

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