On Mon, 7 Feb 2022, King Beowulf wrote:
1. as started, you do NOT mount the optical drive to burn. It is not a mass storage device in this case.
Ed, I've never mounted the optical drive; I've used xcdroast but now it has library issues and won't work. When k3b told me the optical drive is read only I thought it was because the cdrom entry in /etc/fstab set it ro.
2. you MUST use burner s/w since the optical drive needs to be put into burn mode - laser from "read" to "write" power etc. 3. If you log in as 'root' you can simply
Neither xcdroast nor k3b finds the drive writable when invoked by root, either.
# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso see manpage fro more options to fine tune.
Now I have a bootable USB thumb drive the DVD can wati. Rich
