Hi Mike, Tks for your advice. > I have a sony dru-800a, and I've used cheap officemax dvd-r media > successfully. The key is to burn'em *slowly*. The following has > worked > for me: > > growisofs -speed=1 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdwriter=FC-5-i386-DVD.iso It seems that it must be in DVD.iso image directory. Would following command work? # growisofs -speed=1 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdwriter=/path/to/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso B.R. SL