Amadeus W. M. wrote:
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:55:10 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
I usually am very happy and can easily point out the virtues of Linux
over Windows. Come today and I find that I am hit with this k3b, kde
problem and it dumps me in a major mess.
I need to copy 3 DVD and I cannot get k3b to do it. It won't eject
the media. Crashes each time I try to burn an image and I am in a
rush as this had to be done before lunch in 10 minutes.
As I try to burn just the files, I get a Error every time.
It gets to Updating RMA
Then I get growisofs did not exit cleanly.
While copying the CD's, it would give me an error that it cannot eject
the media after reading the CD. Of course this is the same if I try
to copy a DVD.
Now that I vented, have a
Merry Christmas :)
That's not how you copy a dvd in a hurry. At a command prompt, as root,
dd if=/dev/dvd of=dvdcopy.iso
cdrecord dev=/dev/dvd dvdcopy.iso
No need for mkisofs. If you have 2 dvd drives, you can pipe the output of
dd directly to cdrecord.
This works both for data and for e.g. movies (unencrypted!).
Similarly for cds.
Regardless, can't be done in 10 minutes.
For what it is worth, this was a rush job and I followed the routine
that I had done in the past. I needed to make multiple copies and in
the past I just used k3b to copy the iso to the HD and then make the
number of copies I needed.
I had the same error making a new DVD at home with k3b over the Xmas
break. I will have to try some more before filing a bug.
These were all data disks produced at work. They needed to be ready
before lunch.
I will keep this idea handy for future reference.
