On Tue, January 2, 2007 12:42 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > > My point here was that if the command line growisofs doesn't work then > neither will k3b or any other GUI DVD burning program. > > The problem as stated is that he (Lan) can't find the DVD device. If > it's not showing up in dmesg output then there is some other problem. > > Gus
Your point is well taken. I never thought to check dmesg. Since the idea is to do a complete reinstall anyway, I thought I wouldn't apply serious debugging power to the issue until the damned thing refuses to work in the final configuration. Here's some fun: I brought in my laptop with the DVD iso to use the "mindless" M$ utils at work. As a benchmark, the iso copied across my home network (hardwire and no traffic) in less than 3 minutes with scp. I was impressed. Here at work it took 2 hrs 30 min. I am told we virus check everything on the fly. Then the first DVD was ruined by the burner. Apparently it's never worked. I then took an external burner and made my MythDora (3.2) DVD using Nero. I also made the CD boot image just in case I need to do a network install (remember, I'm a CB, and not all my boxen can boot from every media). So now I should be ready to do a FC5-based Myth install. I go into this detail to drag the thread back to MythTV. To all my Debian Gnu/friends, this is not a rejection of your favorite Gnu/Distro. I just needed to work with something that wasn't Gnu to me. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
