On Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 19:38 Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Maybe it is the media you put in the drive. You did put dvd-r media in the drive, right? > > # 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 >
