script to create dvd sized folders for backup

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Tue, 9/13/11, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: script to create dvd sized folders for backup
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 4:58 PM
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:42 PM,
> Antonio Olivares
> <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Sorry Richard,  I tried your suggestions, but it
> still bombs out:
> >
> > [olivares at GHSE213-033561 ~]$ discspan.py --dir ~/Music
> --iso-dir ~/tmp/
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> I mentioned it but I guess I wasn't explicit enough. If
> your running
> "discspan.py" then your not running the version in the RPM
> package I
> provided. I intentionally rename it to just "discspan"
> since it's
> going in /usr/bin.
> 
> Either way I would expect it to run unless there's another
> dependency
> I haven't caught. I think you're missing HAL, which is
> largely
> obsolete but I'm not enough of a programmer to change
> discspan to use
> something else. I checked what hal packages I have
> installed:
> 
> 
> # yum list installed | grep hal
> hal.x86_64             
>            
> 0.5.14-6.fc15           
>           installed
> hal-filesystem.x86_64         
>      0.5.14-6.fc15     
>                
> installed
> hal-info.noarch           
>          20090716-4.fc15 
>                
>   installed
> hal-libs.x86_64           
>          0.5.14-6.fc15 
>                
>     installed
> hal-storage-addon.x86_64         
>   0.5.14-6.fc15         
>             installed
> 
> I don't think you'll need all of them, I would try just
> installing hal
> and see if that takes care of the error. Let me know what
> fixes it so
> I can add it to the RPM requirements.
> 
> Richard
> -- 

I have installed hal and I am getting farther

[root at GHSE213-033561 ~]# yum install hal
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package hal.x86_64 0:0.5.14-6.fc15 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: hal-filesystem = 0.5.14-6.fc15 for package: hal-0.5.14-6.fc15.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: hal-info for package: hal-0.5.14-6.fc15.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package hal-filesystem.x86_64 0:0.5.14-6.fc15 will be installed
---> Package hal-info.noarch 0:20090716-4.fc15 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package               Arch          Version                Repository     Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 hal                   x86_64        0.5.14-6.fc15          fedora        370 k
Installing for dependencies:
 hal-filesystem        x86_64        0.5.14-6.fc15          fedora         31 k
 hal-info              noarch        20090716-4.fc15        fedora         54 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       3 Package(s)

Total download size: 454 k
Installed size: 1.5 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
fedora/prestodelta                                       | 2.5 MB     00:07     
Processing delta metadata
Package(s) data still to download: 454 k
(1/3): hal-0.5.14-6.fc15.x86_64.rpm                      | 370 kB     00:01     
(2/3): hal-filesystem-0.5.14-6.fc15.x86_64.rpm           |  31 kB     00:00     
(3/3): hal-info-20090716-4.fc15.noarch.rpm               |  54 kB     00:00     
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           158 kB/s | 454 kB     00:02     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : hal-filesystem-0.5.14-6.fc15.x86_64                          1/3 
  Installing : hal-0.5.14-6.fc15.x86_64                                     2/3 
  Installing : hal-info-20090716-4.fc15.noarch                              3/3 

Installed:
  hal.x86_64 0:0.5.14-6.fc15                                                    

Dependency Installed:
  hal-filesystem.x86_64 0:0.5.14-6.fc15    hal-info.noarch 0:20090716-4.fc15   

Complete!
[root at GHSE213-033561 ~]# exit
logout
[olivares at GHSE213-033561 ~]$ discspan.py --dir ~/Music --iso-dir ~/tmp/
Using /etc/discspan.ini as config file.
Insert disc and wait for drive to become ready...


I pressed enter after I inserted a DVD and then I get:

Unable to detect media, exiting.


will try it again.

Regards,

Antonio