On Mon, January 1, 2007 12:45 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> On Mon, January 1, 2007 12:05 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: >> >>> The image is for a DVD, not a CDROM. The reason is because he didn't >>> compress anything like in Knoppix and just added MythTV packages. The >>> total image size is 970MB, about 43% bigger than a regular CDROM. >>> >>> Gus >>> >> >> Yeah, I just tumbled to that. My MD5SUM was spot on, BTW. >> >> Hmm ... I have never successfully burned a DVD on my home equipment. >> Gonna >> have to move the image to a box with the right burner and then Run A >> Program. That means the KnoppMyth box and (hopefully) whatever burning >> GUI >> it has. >> >> Suggestions? Maybe command line cdrecord. > > The command line way of burning DVD is with growisofs, part of the > dvd+rw-tools package. To burn a DVD: > > 1) Put a blank DVD+R or DVD-R in the burner. > 2) Disable any "help" from the desktop (if running). In particular, > GNOME is really bad about trying to grab your devices. > 3) At the command line, do: > > # growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=MythDora-3.2.iso > > Substitute your correct DVD device for /dev/hdd. > > cdrecord has some patches to it to allow burning DVD's but for some > reason it fails on DVD+R, at least on my burner. > > You probably want to make sure you have the latest dvd+rw-tools, which > is dvd+rw-tools-7.0-0.fc5.4 (as of 01/01/2007) > > Gus >
As clear as that was, no joy. Debian seems to dynamically reassign everything. The iso is on my laptop. I'll take it to work tomorrow and burn in in M$. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
