a simple way to burn DVDs

a simple way to burn DVDs

[William Stanard]

I've purchased and correctly installed (it reads data CDs just fine,
mounted with "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" ) a HI-VAL DVD_RW/_R rewritable
drive in my Compaq Proliant 800 server running Red Hat 8.0 (ver 2.4.18-14
) in preparation to setting up the drive to do my backup chores. There
doesn't, however, seem to be a simple application as part of this
particular Red Hat build that writes to DVDs. Am I missing something, or
do I have to purchase, for instance, NeroLINUX or some other utility for
writing data to DVDs?

Bill Stanard




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Re: a simple way to burn DVDs

[Ray Olszewski]

William Stanard wrote:
> I've purchased and correctly installed (it reads data CDs just fine,
> mounted with "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" ) a HI-VAL DVD_RW/_R rewritable
> drive in my Compaq Proliant 800 server running Red Hat 8.0 (ver 2.4.18-14
> ) in preparation to setting up the drive to do my backup chores. There
> doesn't, however, seem to be a simple application as part of this
> particular Red Hat build that writes to DVDs. Am I missing something, or
> do I have to purchase, for instance, NeroLINUX or some other utility for
> writing data to DVDs?

I don't know Red Hat 8.0 specifically, but the usual way to burn a CD 
under Linux involves two steps:

1. Create an image of the CD using (typically) mkisofs .

2. Burn theimage to a CD using (typically) cdrecord .

Although I wrote "CD" above, since that I what I actually burn here, my 
understanding is that under Linux, a data (iso9660) DVD is just a "big" 
CD, and modern versions (possibly more modern than RH 8.0, though) of 
mkisofs and cdrecord can handle DVD-size burns just fine.

Besides that ... older kernels require you to use scsi emulation to 
access CD ... and, I imagine, DVD ... drives to burn discs. I think that 
was still true of 2.4.18 (I know it was backwhen I used it). You 
probably need either to run a newer kernel or use scsi emulation with 
this one ... your "reads data CDs just fine" doesn't really tell us, or 
you, if the drive is "correctly installed" for its role as a burner.

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Re: a simple way to burn DVDs

[Hal MacArgle]

Greetings: "Simple" - hmmmmmm. <grin>

Google; sth like "dvdrtools", and--well far from simple.. FWIW..


On 05-11, William Stanard wrote:
> I've purchased and correctly installed (it reads data CDs just fine,
> mounted with "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" ) a HI-VAL DVD_RW/_R rewritable
> drive in my Compaq Proliant 800 server running Red Hat 8.0 (ver 2.4.18-14
> ) in preparation to setting up the drive to do my backup chores. There
> doesn't, however, seem to be a simple application as part of this
> particular Red Hat build that writes to DVDs. Am I missing something, or
> do I have to purchase, for instance, NeroLINUX or some other utility for
> writing data to DVDs?
> 
> Bill Stanard
-- 

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0   (2.4.20-1)
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Re: a simple way to burn DVDs

[Yawar Amin]

On 5/12/05, William Stanard <wstanard@palmertrinity.org> wrote:
> I've purchased and correctly installed (it reads data CDs just fine,
> mounted with "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" ) a HI-VAL DVD_RW/_R rewritable
> drive in my Compaq Proliant 800 server running Red Hat 8.0 (ver 2.4.18-14
> ) in preparation to setting up the drive to do my backup chores. There
> doesn't, however, seem to be a simple application as part of this
> particular Red Hat build that writes to DVDs. Am I missing something, or
> do I have to purchase, for instance, NeroLINUX or some other utility for
> writing data to DVDs?

As root, run the command

cdrecord -scanbus

I'm running Fedora Core 3, and this is what the above command outputs
for me (might be a bit mangled because of word wrapping):

# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004
Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c    
1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus1:
        1,0,0   100) 'QSI     ' 'CDRW/DVD SBW242C' 'UQ81' Removable CD-ROM
        1,1,0   101) *
        1,2,0   102) *
        1,3,0   103) *
        1,4,0   104) *
        1,5,0   105) *
        1,6,0   106) *
        1,7,0   107) *

It has detected my CD-RW DVD-ROM drive correctly, so I can burn ISO
files with the command

cdrecord dev=1,0,0 file.iso

See the cdrecord(1) man page for details.

Also, the output shows that at least from FC3 onwards the (modified)
version of cdrecord can write DVDs. If the RH8 version can't, you may
want to upgrade it to the latest version from Red Hat. But that may
turn out to be quite another problem (what with possibly changing
kernel and other package dependencies, etc.).

You may prefer a simple GUI tool to do the job. Nero is an option,
like you said, but you probably want to explore the free software
avenue first. The best-known (and with good reason) tool is K3B, but
it requires KDE libraries to be installed (which I'm mentioning since
RH8 installs GNOME by default). And it uses cdrecord to do the actual
writing, so cdrecord needs to be set up first.

-- 
Yawar
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Re: a simple way to burn DVDs

[Mr Mike]

On Wed, 11 May 2005 15:46:06 -0400, William Stanard wrote:

> I've purchased and correctly installed (it reads data CDs just fine,
> mounted with "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" ) a HI-VAL DVD_RW/_R rewritable
> drive in my Compaq Proliant 800 server running Red Hat 8.0 (ver 2.4.18-14
> ) in preparation to setting up the drive to do my backup chores. There
> doesn't, however, seem to be a simple application as part of this
> particular Red Hat build that writes to DVDs. Am I missing something, or
> do I have to purchase, for instance, NeroLINUX or some other utility for
> writing data to DVDs?
> 
> Bill Stanard

I haven't seen ANYONE answer you.  Your question is direct and to the
point and I absolutely hate it when users answer questions with vague and
inadaquate replies that dont' even come close to what information your
looking for.

The answer to your question, as I see it, is YES...  If you want to use KDE or 
GNOME then you can use (k3b in KDE) or (Gnomebaker in GNOME).  Both do a very 
good job of working with DVD's of all types.  (ie DVD-R DVD+R DVD+-RW etc..) 
as well as all the CD types.

XCDroast is another generic non/gui specific app but it requires a 'nonfree' plugin 
type thingie 'pro-cdrecord ??' so I don't use it.  Besides, the version I installed 
only looked for SCSI device and I have IDE optical drives..  They offered help on 
how to impliment ide-scsi emulation but I didn't want to do that and didn't think I 
should have to.  If I have to make concessions just to use it, then I'll go somewhere 
else.. :-)

Hope this helps..

mr mike..

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Fwd: a simple way to burn DVDs

[Yawar Amin]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yawar Amin <yawar.amin@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2005 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: a simple way to burn DVDs
To: Mr Mike <mike@ejecta.net>


On 7/20/05, Mr Mike <mike@ejecta.net> wrote:
> I haven't seen ANYONE answer you.  Your question is direct and to the
> point and I absolutely hate it when users answer questions with vague and
> inadaquate replies that dont' even come close to what information your
> looking for.

See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-newbie&w=2&r=1&s=a+simple+way+burn+dvds&q=b.
I hazard there are a few answers in there.

--
Yawar


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Yawar
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Re: Fwd: a simple way to burn DVDs

[Mr Mike]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:11:57 +0730, Yawar Amin wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Yawar Amin <yawar.amin@gmail.com>
> Date: Jul 20, 2005 9:07 AM
> Subject: Re: a simple way to burn DVDs
> To: Mr Mike <mike@ejecta.net>
> 
> 
> On 7/20/05, Mr Mike <mike@ejecta.net> wrote:
>> I haven't seen ANYONE answer you.  Your question is direct and to the
>> point and I absolutely hate it when users answer questions with vague and
>> inadaquate replies that dont' even come close to what information your
>> looking for.
> 
> See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-newbie&w=2&r=1&s=a+simple+way+burn+dvds&q=b.
> I hazard there are a few answers in there.
> 
> --
> Yawar

Yawar, I think the key word here is 'simple'
Maybe it's just two different views but I dont 
think applying a CLI approach is answering his question 
while keeping 'simple' in mind.  I use the cli all day 
and prefer it a bunch over a lot of gui stuff, BUT when 
I want/need to burn CD/DVD I much prefer the 'simplicity' 
of K3B or Gnomebaker or whaterver over the command line.

He was asking for a SIMPLE way.. not a complex, 
multi-step cli appraoch requiring su to root and 
back then even MORE cli commands.  Sorry, but that
approach is to 'complex' for a question asking for 
a SIMPLE solution.

note:  don't get me wrong, I want every linux user no matter 
how clueless, to eventually learn enough cli to do these sort of
things.  but...  until they reach that level, let them 'point and click' 
away.. :-)




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