[KLUG Members] CD / DVD burning

[Bruce Smith]

> > > > Is it really mkisofs that's giving the error, or cdrecord?  I ran
> > > > mkisofs on my SuSE 9.2 system on a 2.5GB file and it works fine.
> > > 
> > > Did you try mounting the iso? What options did you make it with?
> > 
> > No, I didn't mount the ISO.  Exactly what options did you give to
> > mkisofs so I can try it exactly the same as you?
>
> I used:
> mkisofs -r -f -J -o iso_image.iso my_tree

Everything seems to work fine in SuSE 9.2 pro.

> ll tree/
total 2408616
-rw-r--r--  2 bruce users 2466410496 2004-11-08 16:28 FC3-i386-DVD.iso

> mkisofs -r -f -J -o bs_image.iso tree
mkisofs: Warning: -follow-links does not always work correctly; be
careful.
INFO:   UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
        Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
        use -input-charset to override.
  0.42% done, estimate finish Wed Nov 10 11:26:52 2004
...
 99.63% done, estimate finish Wed Nov 10 11:30:16 2004
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 257
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 0
1204483 extents written (2352 MB)

> md5sum FC3-i386-DVD.iso
ca49964739f84848ca78fc03662272fb  FC3-i386-DVD.iso


(as root in a different window)

# mount bs_image.iso /mnt/bs -oro,loop
# cd /mnt/bs
# md5sum FC3-i386-DVD.iso
ca49964739f84848ca78fc03662272fb  FC3-i386-DVD.iso