Re: growisofs with -b problem

2003-08-22 Thread Len Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:49:31PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: The source code is included, the license is GPL, they didn't remove the copyrights that were there, they clearly state what it is based on. What more do you expect them to do? Sorry I did post this many times now. Read the

Re: growisofs with -b problem

2003-08-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
It appears to me that the version they release outputs at least as much as the original cdrecord does, which seems to be what the exception in paragraph 2 section c states as acceptable. Seems like a lot of fuss about nothing to me. Jörg could also put some info on his website - many projects

Re: growisofs with -b problem

2003-08-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 20 18:30:19 2003 Identifikation : 'DVD_RW ND-1300A ' Revision : '1.05' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R This

Re: growisofs with -b problem

2003-08-20 Thread Len Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:47:48PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: From: eugene rikel [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to create a bootable DVD disk using nd-1300a. which is DVD+-RW drive. 0,0,0 0) '_NEC' 'DVD_RW ND-1300A ' '1.05' Removable The machine is 850Mhz Celeron RH9.0, kernel

RE: growisofs with -b problem

2003-08-20 Thread eugene rikel
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:59 AM To: eugene rikel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: growisofs with -b problem Q1: is it possible to boot from a DVD disk? Noone will be able to answer this question with 100% certainty. If your BIOS can boot

Re: growisofs with -b problem

2003-08-20 Thread Andy Polyakov
2.It seems there is a bug in mkisfos with -b option. Let's say I want to backup /home/me/x/y/z but my boot image is located in /home/me/x/y/a So when I try to specify ../a/boot.img - mkisofs fails to find it, It's not a bug. You *have to* have boot.img *within* the tree you

Re: growisofs with -b problem

2003-08-20 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
2.It seems there is a bug in mkisfos with -b option. Let's say I want to is a relative path. Could it be that stuff starting with ../ or ./ does not work? Quite possibly. I make bootable CDs without problem, but I don't have . or .. in the -b path. 3. What I was trying to do was to create

Re: growisofs with -b problem

2003-08-19 Thread Andy Polyakov
Q1: is it possible to boot from a DVD disk? Noone will be able to answer this question with 100% certainty. If your BIOS can boot from CD, it most likely can boot from DVD as well. But there might be limitations, e.g. bootstrap image has to be in the beginning om media perhaps, nobody knows for

Re: growisofs with -b problem

2003-08-19 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Which kind of tells you that all the mkisofs options need to be after all the growisofs options. Not 100% true. mkisofs options are suggested to be passed last in command line mostly for aesthetic reasons. In reality you can actually mix them with native growisofs options. You should