F12-i386-DVD iso won't burn properly

Temlakos temlakos at gmail.com
Tue Mar 2 14:36:33 UTC 2010


Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
> Try burning it with wodim.  It's a command-line tool; you'll need to
> read wodim's man page, which will require a bit of study.
>
> One reason is that wodim is likely to succeed where other burners
> fail.  The other is that wodim will give extremely detailed error
> messages if something goes wrong.
>
> I don't recall the precise command line you will need, so please do
> look up the man page, but it will be something like:
>
>   $ sudo wodim -v speed=1 dev=/dev/cdrw -sao Foo.iso
>
> "-sao" means Session at Once, which is what you want if you're burning
> the entire disc from a single ISO file.
>
> Replace "/dev/cdrw" with your burner's actual filename - but /dev/cdrw
> is probably what you want.
>
> If it still borks, copy all of wodim's output to the clipboard and
> paste it into a reply to this thread.
>
> Don Quixote
>   
Sadly, I don't seem to have wodim on my system. (I never upgraded beyond 
FC6, if that explains anything.) How do I get it?

Temlakos


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