On Friday 17 November 2006 06:17, pritam ghanghas wrote: >On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 10:29 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> One last problem it appears. I was going to burn the FC6 iso for one >> of the techs at Circuit City to give him while he's putting a new >> drive in my lappy today, and k3b tried, but failed, never writing a >> byte to the blank dvd+r disk as diskinfo says its still empty. >> >> dvdstyler burned that wedding video 2 days ago just fine, but this is >> the first time I've trie k3b since putting FC6 in. >> >> ISTR seeing someone else with this problem go by, but evidently my >> search terms in kmail can't find it. What was the fix? >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >> message by Gene Heskett are: >> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > >Burning an iso shouldnt be a problem. But if you are compiling a new dvd >or cd you may get error like was not able to allocate memory. this >problem relates to the growisofs. Newer kernel doesnt allow it to >acquire low level memory I suppose. >Fix is >go to Settings: configure k3b: Programs: User parameters: >and put the following parameter against growisofs >-use-the-force-luke=bufsize:16m >This works for me I can put that in, but that wasn't the problem. The problem was that I had to put k3b in the overwrite mode before it would burn an iso to a perfectly blank dvd+r. I don't think that was the intended function was it? Thanks for the reply, Pritam. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
