On Sun, October 21, 2007 12:28 pm, rbw wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> On Sat, October 20, 2007 10:24 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote: >>> On 10/20/07, rbw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> What I find weird is the absolute conclusive >>>> confidence of the web sites I searched that with >>>> a drive that has DVD-R/RAM capabilities that the >>>> below CLI will work. >>>> My circumstances can't possibly be THAT special... >>>> What in the world could I be missing?? >>>> >>>> BTW burning CD's is no problem at all... >>>> >>> Have you looked at the date of the information supplied by those web >>> sites? As far as I know, the functions of growisofs and cdrecord have >>> been merged into a package "cdrtools", by everyone's favorite author >>> Joerg Schilling. >>> >>> Schilling-haters have produced another set of software for cd/dvd >>> creation, instantaneously I can't find it. >>> >>> Possibly related: what is the group of the CD/DVD writer? Most >>> likely "disk". Do you rbw or lbarnes belong to group disk? >>> >> >> I know this is going to bring down an avalanche of calumny on my >> ignorant >> head, but I usually make my cdrom device 777. 9 times out of 10 it's >> R/O, >> and the tenth time, what am I risking, that someone will own a user >> account on the box just in time to ruin a $.35 blank? BFD. >> >>> If you want a copy of KNOPPIX_V5.1.1DVD-2007-01-04-EN.iso I have one >>> or two, and could make more. Of course this does not solve the >>> problem of burning your own. >>> >> >> No, but it could debug whether it's a HW problem. >> >> I could go for one of those. Also (separate post) FC7 i386. >> > > Thanks Carl and Gus... > As it turns out I managed to get a (seemingly) > good download twice but a bad checksum and the > 3rd time I got a clean download/checksum. Lan > maybe it is a simple as this for you? > > In the course of looking up the higher issues I > ran across this, which I'm not familiar: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier_(packet_writing) > > What, if any, use are any of you making of this > capability? > > rbw > >
I find the bandwidth of buying from Carl in a parking lot (he wears a false mustache, at least it looks false) superior to trying to burn DVDs around here. Of course, I have a deep stack of DVD-Rs and lots of CB MBs in the house. So in my ignorance, I stack the deck against myself. However, I did once burn a successful DVD of MythDors 4. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
