On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 07:30, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Greetings Everybody , > > I wanted to ask how can someone write a data dvd under Fedora Core 1 . > Am familiar with cdrecord and mkisofs as far as writting cds is concerned . > I know that there is a command called dvdrecord which seems to work like > cdrecord . But am rather uncertain on how to create a 4,5 GB ISO image > in order to > feed it to dvdrecord to do the writing . Does anyone have any > hints/examples ? > > Thank you in advance for your time > > Kind Regards, > Kostas You can make the iso the same way you do for CD's, but instead of dvdrecord (broken for iso's over "100 minutes") use the command: # growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=your_very_own.iso growisofs is actually a wrapper to mkisofs, so you can skip the middleman of creating an iso first, and just feed (most of) mkisofs options to growisofs to write directly to disk. growisofs has a man page now, so you can get details there. -- Chris Kloiber