How do you write dvds?

[Eric Sisler]

Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu> wrote:

I have been trying to write dvds using cdrecord on RedHat systems,
> 2.4.21-57.ELsmp and 2.6.9-78.ELsmp.
>
> I use
>
> mkisof -R -o  disk1.iso disk1
>
>  cdrecord speed=4 dev=/dev/cdwriter:@ disk1.iso


You need to use the growisofs command instead of cdrecord:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdwriter=image.iso

I also agree that K3B is a great GUI tool.

-Eric