[Off Topic] Burning DVDs

Beri, Rohit linuxlist at beris.net
Thu Nov 11 15:20:14 UTC 2004


What version of kernel are u using?
also do you see any issues buring CD-R or CD-RW.

I know I was having issues buring CD-R/RW with kernel 2.6.8.xxxx so now 
I use 2.6.7.xx on FC2

Cheers,

-B

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

>I'm trying to burn a DVD for installing FC3.  I've downloaded
>FC3-i386-DVD.iso using BitTorrent; it checks OK comparing the
>accompanying md5 file MD5SUM.
>
>I've tried to burn a DVD using k3b; so far I've made 4 such DVDs. 
>Unfortunately, these DVDs are all bad.  K3b indicates a comparison
>failure, and invoking "linux mediacheck" on booting from the DVD
>indicates the same thing.  Some of the DVDs won't boot at all.
>
>The CD/DVD drive is a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S.  The DVD blanks are
>Memorex 4X DVD-R.  K3b was running in "Auto" speed burning some DVDs and
>in "4x" speed burning others.
>
>Does anyone know what the problem might be?  Any idea on how to cure
>it?  Different brand of DVD blanks?  Clean the drive?  Whatever?
>
>  
>




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