On Sunday 12 March 2006 23:39, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Greetings Anne, > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:23, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> I'm trying to burn a data DVD with k3b (FC4), but keep getting the error > >> "growisofs did not exit cleanly". Any ideas, please? > > > > I tried xcdroast, and that seems to be looking for > > /usr/bin/cdrecord.prodvd, which does not exist. I've not seen this > > before. > > That's perfectly logical . You see xcdroast is not a standalone programm > but actually is a frontend to cdrecord . In other words you see xcdroast > running with beautifull windows and the rest but the real job is done > by cdrecord. Now the original version of cdrecord was for writing CDs > ( Audio, Data , mixed , you name it ) , cdrecord.prodvd is the > extension for writing DVDs . That's all that it is about . > I thought it was likely to be that, but where does it come from? --whatprovides says that no package provides cdrecord.prodvd > > If you don't mind , why don't you use growisofs from the command line ? > It should look something like the one below : > > > #growisofs -R -J -speed=8 -Z /dev/scd0 /Data > > > -R : stands for the Rockridge Extensions , well you need this > so that mkisofs will not produce a warning because you used -J > -J : stands for the Joliet Extensions . If the DVD you want to > write will be read sometime by a Computer running Microsoft > Windows then you need this . > -Z : you put the DVD Recorder device ( the above example was > when i was using a 2.4 kernel with the ide-scsi emulation ) > /Data : is the directory that contains the data to be written > to the DVD > I did think about that, but didn't have the confidence to handle multiple directories and multiple exclusions. Anne
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