Looking for an easy way of making a iso DVD

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Nov 3 14:37:06 UTC 2005


Paul Smith wrote:
> On 11/3/05, Bob Chiodini <rchiodin at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
>>>I am looking for an easy way of making a iso DVD. Could someone please
>>>give me some advice?
>>
>>k3b will do it.  It's under Tools.
> 
> 
> Thanks, Bob and John. K3b seems to be useless, as one needs a ready
> iso file, and what I am looking for, it is a simple way of producing
> the iso file.

Just use mkisofs on the command-line. For example, to make an archive 
ISO of the current directory, do:

mkisofs -joliet \
	-uid 0 -gid 0 \
	-file-mode 444 -dir-mode 555 \
	-output /path/to/your.iso \
	.

Paul.




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