Other Help Topics :: How to burn a DVD+RW ?



Hello,

I tried a lot of things but I don't find how to burn a DVD+RW with DSL :(

This is for emergency backup purpose.
I'm on it since sunday...

I loaded DSL from CD with "toram", so DSL is loaded into RAM and the DVD burner is free to be used.
I put some test files in /tmp/burn.

When I try to burn a DVD with the included cdrecord command, it tells me that DVD support code is missing.

When  try to burn a CD with the cdrecord command :
sudo cdrecord dev=0,0,0 /tmp/burn
it tells me that  it's a directory !
I tried to use the --help but don't find how to burn a directory content.

When I try the CD Burn App (BashBurn) :
10 : mount
1 : mount device
return : mount cdrom
0 : back
2 : Data
1 : Burn data
Nothing happens...

Sorry, I'm a newbie to the Linux World, but all I want is to save my work.

Can you help me please? :)
quezako, are you sure that your DVD burner is device 0,0,0?  Try running

cdrecord -scanbus

to make sure.  It will give you a list of the devices that cdrecord sees.  Does it see your DVD drive?  If you have more than one DVD/CD drive that could be the problem.

As far as /tmp/burn being a directory, is it?  When I use cdrecord, I always have to make an iso file of the directory first.  Then I use cdrecord to burn it to the CD (I assume that DVDs are similar).  Did you make an iso of the directory?  Try:

mkisofs -J -r /tmp/burn -o mynewdvd.iso
cdrecord -scanbus
cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 mynewdvd.iso

but make sure that 0,0,0 is the right device number first.  If it's, say, 0,0,1 the use that instead.
To WRITE to a DVD-R or RW , you'll need to download the
dvdrtools package from apt-get.

cdrecord has minimal DVD-R support..

dvdrtools works just like cdrecord..

dvdrtools dev=0,0,0 speed=2 path-to-your.iso

I've been burning bootable DVD-R's for some time now.
Works great, and gives lots of space for files..

enjoy,

73
ke4nt
ok great !

My device is 0,0,0 but I didn't know that I must use an .iso File.

I'll try dvdrtools but I forgot one more thing :
I have no writable hard drives.
So, all I can is :
- use my ntfs hd in readonly mode
- burn CD/DVD
- put things in memory

I only have 512mb of memoy so I can't create a DVD iso in memory :(

No one knows a program that can burns files without needing a .iso file ?
A Nero-like ?

Thanks anyway for your answers :)
ok here what I have done :
downloaded dvdrtools
downloaded tcc
downloaded gcc-core
using tcc to compile gcc

I want to use gcc or tcc to compile dvdrtools but when I type the command make :
command not found.

I'm a bit lost !
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