On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 17:21 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > On 11/3/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>>I am looking for an easy way of making a iso DVD. Could someone please > > >>>give me some advice? > > >> > > >>k3b will do it. It's under Tools. > > > > > > Thanks, Bob and John. K3b seems to be useless, as one needs a ready > > > iso file, and what I am looking for, it is a simple way of producing > > > the iso file. > > > > In k3b click on File> New Project > New Data DVD Project > > > > Drag and drop your files to the DVD window and then when you click > > burn, only create the ISO. > > > > Done it and it works. > > > > If you mean a DVD as in Movie with the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS > > directories, that is authoring the DVD more than creating the ISO. > > True, k3b does produce an iso DVD, however not bootable... Can one use > k3b to make it bootable when copied into a DVD disk? > > Paul > Paul, "Easy" probably not. Supposedly mkisofs can create DVD iso images, but I've never tried it. Take a look at the man pages for mkisofs and mkbootdisk. There is an explanation on making bootable CDs (man mkisofs), but it's rather complicated (at least to me). I did not see a k3b option, but not all of the options are displayed running it under gnome. Sorry not much help. Bob...
