DVD Burning in Redhat 7.2,8,9?

ktwalker · 10-21-2003, 04:02 PM

Hi everyone,

I'm about to put a distro of redhat on my new workstation where I'll be doing data processing. I need to be able to write DVD's, but I also want the stability of redhat 7.2 (the distro that has served me faithfully over hte last 2+ years). Anyway, can I burn DVD's on 7.2? Or must I install 8 or 9? I am not a DVD/CD R/W wizard, but i remember trying to get cdroast working on 7.2, and I had problems with it (never worked completely). Any suggestions, advice, or experiences to share would be appreciated.

kris

peter_robb · 10-21-2003, 04:06 PM

The command line prog cdrecord has updates for dvd burning.

Basically, you need to make an iso image and burn that to the dvd.

ktwalker · 10-21-2003, 04:52 PM

Thanks Peter. Sounds simple. So this should be easy to do on 7.2 I presume?

kris

whansard · 10-21-2003, 04:55 PM

i'm doing it on redhat 6.2
download the patched version of mkisofs that allows bigger than 2 gig files.
download the hacked cdrecord called dvdrecord.

mkisofs -r -J -o image.iso /directorieswithfiles
dvdrecord -v -dao dev=0,0,0 speed=4 image.iso

ktwalker · 10-21-2003, 05:01 PM

Thanks a million guys! I feel much better now knowing I don't need to upgrade just for that purpose.

Cheers,
kris

Caeda · 10-30-2003, 11:01 AM

K3B burns DVD's as well, with a nice gui interface.

ktwalker · 10-30-2003, 03:50 PM

Loaded libmad rpm, and then the k3b already compiled for redhat8 locatd on the website, but got this funky error:

k3b: relocation error: k3b: undefined symbol: static_QUType_varptr

If you know what this means, please let me know and I'll resintall the program on my computer and attempt to implement the fix you suggest. I tried a google search on it, but most of what came up was in other languages I didn't understand.

Cheers,
kris