On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:51 +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > > I try to on-the-fly burn a DVD (lack of place on my notebook) with > XCDRoast. > I have a up to date FC4, with testing repo enabled. > I installed cdrecord-ProDVD from here: > http://fedoranews.org/tchung/cdrecord-ProDVD/20060611/ > With testing repo enabled you are actually using FC5T2+ and should be asking on the fedora-test-list. > I try to burn the DVD and then: > > [....] > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 > Waiting for data on stdin... > SCSI buffer size: 64512 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. > cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot allocate memory. Cannot get SCSI I/O > buffer. > Driveropts: 'burnfree' > [/] > > Looking at google, I found this: > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.1/0301.html > Seems to be a 2.6.9 issue but i am using 2.6.14 on my FC4. > I use k3b with no problems. Using xcdroast I believe you need to use growisofs first to create the image. K3b does it on the fly. > What to do? > I try to burn a 4.7Go DVD. Must I really prepend strace? how? > Thank you. You cannot put 4.7GB data on a DVD. It actually holds about 4.3 - 4.4 GB of data.