On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:22:35PM +0100, L. Cranswick wrote: > Is there a webpage somewhere that describes why DVD-RAM cannot have > ISO images more than ~700Meg written to it - and possible solutions > for creating bootable DVD-RAM media (that writing ISO images seems > to allow quite seemlessly - assuming the images are not greater than > ~700 Meg)?
Is there any page that says it can have an iso image put on it at all? Last I used a DVD-RAM it was a block device with, as far as fdisk can see, 1 head, 1 cylinder and 8946816 sectors. I guess maybe I could do dd if=file.iso of=/dev/hdc or something, but I would not expect cdrecord to have anything to do with it. It has no concept of blanking as far as I know (you can write zeros on it if you want, which is what a blank, unformated disk has), or you can create a UDF filesystem on it (mkudf can do that, among others). Consider it to be a very large floppy. Also I have no idea if any system can boot from it. Maybe if you partition it, and then create a filesystem on a bootable partition, you could boot it. Maybe not. given the geometry is so different. Basically, why use cdrecord, when dd works? Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
