Writting data DVD

divyashree · 06-25-2009, 03:58 AM

How will I write data DVD in nero linux,as there is no option in there as in nero for windows....do any body know this ??

jdkaye · 06-25-2009, 04:21 AM

I don't know about nero but if you use k3b you just click on the DATA DVD button in the startup screen. Any particular reason why you must use nero?
cheers,
jdk

wabbalee · 06-25-2009, 05:34 AM

Yep, I'd like to know that too, since k3b does the job so well.

jdkaye · 06-25-2009, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by wabbalee

Yep, I'd like to know that too, since k3b does the job so well.

What would you like to know? Also, regarding Nero, did you actually buy it or are you using the trial version. If it's the trial version it may be stripped of certain features such as the ability to record data DVD's.
http://k3b.plainblack.com/
cheers,
jdk

Shadow_7 · 06-25-2009, 10:16 AM

You could always do it the hard way. K3b does the job, but installing it generally means installing KDE at least in part, and that's a hefty tax for my dialup connection. So...

$ mkisofs -J -o image.iso ./PATH/
$ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso

or take out the middle man.

$ growisofs -J -Z /dev/dvd=./PATH/

Not that I verified the last one. And you're not really taking out the middle man, you're just skipping the temp file AFAIK and doing it as a one liner. -J for long filenames. -R if you want *nix permissions as well, I"m not sure where/if that comes into play for windows users, so I leave it off. And the iso9660 filesystem has a 4GB limit, so be careful there. I'm not sure how/if blueray gets around that. But I don't have any of that yet, so no need to know (just yet).

wabbalee · 06-25-2009, 07:22 PM

to jdkaye:

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What would you like to know?

I would like to know why divyashree would want to use nero linux and not one of the Linux native apps, just like you, or did I misread here what you meant?

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Any particular reason why you must use nero?

as you put it.

I have used NeroLinux a few times in a long gone past and it did the job I suppose. At the time I was in a newbie stage of using Linux and getting my head around the ways things were done is entirely different in Linux. Exhausting for the brain is what I remember. Using a program like NeroLinux seemed one way to get something done for me as I did not know what good native Linux apps were around. Then I found one thing strange about NeroLinux that none of the other apps seemed to do and that was the back then familiar prompting for some license code to keep the software working as the trial was over. To get a license code one had to pay full price to Nero and that's what I did not like and I guess that's where I started looking at the native apps more serious. only to find out quickly that they were different, yes, but as intuitive and easy to use as windows counterparts and a large number to choose from.

so in short, pfeww, why the Heck would you want to use or even think about NeroLinux? I don't get it..

cheers
Ron

jdkaye · 06-25-2009, 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wabbalee

to jdkaye:

I would like to know why divyashree would want to use nero linux and not one of the Linux native apps, just like you, or did I misread here what you meant?

as you put it.

I have used NeroLinux a few times in a long gone past and it did the job I suppose. At the time I was in a newbie stage of using Linux and getting my head around the ways things were done is entirely different in Linux. Exhausting for the brain is what I remember. Using a program like NeroLinux seemed one way to get something done for me as I did not know what good native Linux apps were around. Then I found one thing strange about NeroLinux that none of the other apps seemed to do and that was the back then familiar prompting for some license code to keep the software working as the trial was over. To get a license code one had to pay full price to Nero and that's what I did not like and I guess that's where I started looking at the native apps more serious. only to find out quickly that they were different, yes, but as intuitive and easy to use as windows counterparts and a large number to choose from.

so in short, pfeww, why the Heck would you want to use or even think about NeroLinux? I don't get it..

cheers
Ron

Sorry I misunderstood you Ron. I agree with you entirely. I suppose the newly converted from Windows want to use software they're familiar and/or don't realise that the equivalents (or better) for just about any app can be found in linux.
Cheers,
jdk

divyashree · 06-26-2009, 10:14 PM

Finally I used k3b .

jdkaye · 06-26-2009, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by divyashree

Finally I used k3b .

and...?
jdk