On Tuesday 22 July 2003 11:30 am, DARREN BROWN wrote:
> I need to burning an 1 GB image onto a DVD that is uncompressed.  We ju=
st
> bought the new Sony firewire external DVD writer, but it only came w/
> software for M$.  So, my question to the group is.  What software under=
 RH
> 7.3 can I use?  I have never done DVD burning under Linux, only CD burn=
ing.
>

=09Using the Pioneer A5 burner, I just fired off cdrecord, which immediat=
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complained that my ISO (created via mkisofs) was too large for a CD and=20
aborted.  A quick search found that dvdrecord is an almost exact clone of=
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cdrecord only with the ISO size limit expanded and a couple other quick=20
changes.

mkisofs+dvdrecord makes great backups to DVD of our entire database at th=
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hours mark via cron.  I just leave a blank DVD in the drive and go home. =
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When I come in in the morning, the drive is ejected and the DVD is ready =
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the "Sharpie of Justice".

Toughest part of the whole thing was that the first time, I had to "insmo=
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ide-scsi"  which autodetected the burner and assigned a SCSI ID.  After t=
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I added the command to Grub.=20

That is all under Redhat 8.0.  Call me if you have any questions.

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Kyle Faber
Account Manager
EMR Internet
kyle@emr.net
623-581-0842 voice
623-582-9499 fax

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