Unable To Write To DVD

[Mogens Kjaer]

Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>     I have an IBM ThinkPad T-30 and I recently bought a DVD+RW drive to 
> use with it.  I had downloaded a DVD iso file from one of the Fedora 
> Core 6 mirrors.  When I try to write the iso file to a DVD +R disk, I 
> continue to get the error "The data does not fit on disk.  The .iso file 
> is 3.3G and the disk is 4.7G.  What gives?  I am using K3b to burn the 
> data to the disk but I continue to come up with this problem.  Has 
> anyone else had this problem?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 

Try writing from a command prompt instead:

growisofs -Z /dev/dvdwriter=FC-6-i386-DVD.iso

First check that /dev/dvdwriter exists and is a symlink
to the correct drive.

Mogens

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