Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 22:55, Maurits van Rees wrote: ... man apt-cache: DESCRIPTION apt-cache performs a variety of operations on APT's package cache. apt-cache does not manipulate the state of the system but does provide operations to search and generate interesting output from the package metadata. So you should be safe. You get things like this: $ apt-cache search dvd write bootcd - run your system from cd without need for disks bootcd-dvdplus - bootcd extension to use DVD+ media bootcd-hppa - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on parisc/hppa bootcd-i386 - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on i386. bootcd-ia64 - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on ia64 k3b - A sophisticated KDE cd burning application You can do all of these type of searches within aptitiude, so there is no need to use apt-cache. Take a little time out and read the manual (on-line in aptitude) and it will show you how to do these searches. -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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When I first started using aptitude I got the impression that it was an almost all encompassing front-end to the command-line apt. I like it better than the gui front-ends because you can use it remotely over ssh. Using aptitude makes it a bit hard sometimes though, it seems a lot of people on these forums use apt on the command-line. I'm sure after a few more months of using it and learning all the ins and outs it will make understanding apt commands easier. On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:53:30 +, Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 December 2004 22:55, Maurits van Rees wrote: ... man apt-cache: DESCRIPTION apt-cache performs a variety of operations on APT's package cache. apt-cache does not manipulate the state of the system but does provide operations to search and generate interesting output from the package metadata. So you should be safe. You get things like this: $ apt-cache search dvd write bootcd - run your system from cd without need for disks bootcd-dvdplus - bootcd extension to use DVD+ media bootcd-hppa - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on parisc/hppa bootcd-i386 - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on i386. bootcd-ia64 - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on ia64 k3b - A sophisticated KDE cd burning application You can do all of these type of searches within aptitiude, so there is no need to use apt-cache. Take a little time out and read the manual (on-line in aptitude) and it will show you how to do these searches. -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
From: Ben Bettin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Yesterday 21:52:38 I took everyone's advice and am giving k3b a try. I picked up a few DVD+R and DVD+RW discs (my drive supports both + and - protocols). I installed k3b with aptitude (I'm running Sarge). I started it up, and it's giving me an error/warning message which I'm not sure how to fix. It says the following: Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package. According to aptitude I have dvd+rw-tools installed. I checked /usr/bin and I see dvd+rw-format listed. I started up K3bSetup2 and checked, /usr/bin is in the search path, yet it still can't find dvd+rw-format. I tried added /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format to the search path, still no luck. I tried searching through some of the past archived post from this group but didn't have much luck. I've only been receiving this list for a week or so, so I apologize if there is a known fix for this that everyone but me knows. :) Does anyone have any suggestions for me to get k3b full working? If I'm doomed and must use the console to burn cd-r, cd-rw, dvd-r, and dvd-rw's, does anyone have some linkage to a nice tutorial describing how to do it? Thanks so much for your thoughts. Ben Looking at the bug report for K3b it looks like you have found a new bug, might be just how it was packaged. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkgdata=k3barchive=no While I was looking up something similar, I came across some good urls that might be helpful to you. http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:lwmxIKqlJjwJ:applications.linux.com/print.pl%3Fsid%3D04/11/16/1555246+growisofs+%2B+bin/cuehl=en http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd/HOWTO-ossdvd.html The first one seems to be very in depth and somewhat official, as other links seem to point to it. For example the last url lists the first url as a resource. As far as I know one of the uses of dvd+rw-tools that K3b employes is that to erase a dvd+-rw disc. To get by this problem just use the dvd+rw-format on the cmd line to erase the disk. As stated early in this thread K3b uses growisofs, so a little cmd line should not hurt anyone. I must admit the dd method is very slick, but what I really need is something that can join two bin/cue files, or more, to fit on a dvd+-rw media disk, and be played in a stand alone dvd player. Anyway you might want to file a bug report against K3b for the problem you encountered. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:52:38PM -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: If I'm doomed and must use the console to burn cd-r, cd-rw, dvd-r, and dvd-rw's, does anyone have some linkage to a nice tutorial describing how to do it? You probably have some how-tos in a subdirectory of /usr/share/doc/HOWTO. Look for the CD-Writing-HOWTO. Maybe there's some info in DVD-Playback-HOWTO as well. Basically for CDs (I have no DVDs): - put the files you want in a directory - make an iso (=image) file of that directory with mkisofs. Read `man mkisofs'. - Optionally try to mount the image file via loopback to test if it works. You usually need to be root for this to work: mount -t iso9660 -o -ro,loop=/dev/loop0 name of isofile /cdrom Now you can check the contents of /cdrom to see if they are what you expect them to be. Do `umount /cdrom' after this. - burn the iso file with cdrecord. See `man cdrecord' and indeed the CD-Writing-HOWTO. To clear a CD-RW, use `cdrecord -blank=fast' or `cdrecord -blank=all'. You need to set some defaults in /etc/default/cdrecord or add info to the commandline on where cdrecord can find the actual device and how fast it should burn. Burning under Linux kernel 2.4 is different from kernel 2.6. Most info could be specific for 2.4 so watch out there. This works for me, but a graphical program like k3b is more userfriendly and /should/ also function. So I hope you can get that to work with some help from the list. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. - Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
What kernel are you running? Hopefully not the 2.6.8. It's known not to work . I'm using 2.6.8-1-686 kernel image with gnome 2.8 desktop environment. I've installed k3b with apt-get, then installed the programs requested in the error message with apt-get as well, and everything works just fine. I've heard about the 2.6.8 kernel problem though. Have a nice day, George -- George Iordanou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: www.livejournal.com/users/georgis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dnia 06-12-2004 21:40,Rodney Gordon II napisa: On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: If the Nautilus creator only does the creation of data cd/dvd's, I need a simple way to copy cd's and dvd's. I'd prefer not to have to use the console. I would definitly prefer a method which integrates nicely into Gnome like the Nautilus one does. What would you all suggest? K3b, though not GTK/Gnome, is perhaps the best burning program for linux there is. Take a look! So many votes for k3b... Maybe somebody will help me with a small problem - I cannot burn multisession CDRW properly - all old sessions are shortnamed (DOS-like filenames). When I use xcdroast it's OK, new session keeps old ones untouched. With k3b *zonk* they are all messed up. Why? Regards, -- misiek *** Michal R. Hoffmann|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** -= member of: KNM, ZUKiH, HCKU =- *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 13:43:30 +0200 George Iordanou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kernel are you running? Hopefully not the 2.6.8. It's known not to work . I'm using 2.6.8-1-686 kernel image with gnome 2.8 desktop environment. I've installed k3b with apt-get, then installed the programs requested in the error message with apt-get as well, and everything works just fine. I've heard about the 2.6.8 kernel problem though. Have a nice day, George 2.6.8 have known problems with writing cd's, so I would assume it would aslo have problems writing dvd's. Either upgrade to 2.6.9 or downgrade to 2.6.7, and try to burn the dvd's -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgpeWFIkLT2PO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
snip Rodney D. Myers wrote: 2.6.8 have known problems with writing cd's, so I would assume it would aslo have problems writing dvd's. Either upgrade to 2.6.9 or downgrade to 2.6.7, and try to burn the dvd's. Just installed K3b as a test, came up with the same bug, K3b does not detect dvd+rw-tools, then used dpkg --purge to purge dvd+rw-tools and reinstalled it, same problem. Seems like K3b is buggy, will wait to file bug report, in case first poster wants to. Kernel version 2.6.7. :uname -a Linux Raiz-mpx 2.6.7-mpx #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 09:58:16 CDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux kernel compiled from debian source. From K3b, Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin$ whereis dvd+rw-format dvd+rw-format: /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format Looks like everything else can find it except K3b. As stated else where, I do not thing the problem is burning the files, but it is erasing the disc if its a dvd+-rw with K3b, I seem to remember having similar problems with K3b some time ago might of been an early version maybe a year ago. I think I know what it was, it totally screwed up my /etc/fstab file, once I fixed it by hand, and did not let K3b setup use it again, still could not detect my cdrw right, even though I used the other options in K3b. Rthoreau
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
Rthoreau wrote: Just installed K3b as a test, came up with the same bug, K3b does not detect dvd+rw-tools, then used dpkg --purge to purge dvd+rw-tools and reinstalled it, same problem. Seems like K3b is buggy, will wait to file bug report, in case first poster wants to. Kernel version 2.6.7. :uname -a Linux Raiz-mpx 2.6.7-mpx #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 09:58:16 CDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux kernel compiled from debian source. From K3b, Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin$ whereis dvd+rw-format dvd+rw-format: /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format Looks like everything else can find it except K3b. As stated else where, I do not thing the problem is burning the files, but it is erasing the disc if its a dvd+-rw with K3b, I seem to remember having similar problems with K3b some time ago might of been an early version maybe a year ago. I think I know what it was, it totally screwed up my /etc/fstab file, once I fixed it by hand, and did not let K3b setup use it again, still could not detect my cdrw right, even though I used the other options in K3b. Which version of K3b are you using? The other day, I installed the version from Sid (K3b 0.11.17). It found everything, including dvd+rw-format with no problem. Rick -- Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
My kernel shouldn't have a problem, I'm running 2.6.7. I'm at work at the moment. I'll submit a bug report for this when I get back home later this evening. I'm not sure what version of K3b I'm using. Under the suggestions of the users on this list I started up aptitude and installed whatever the latest version of it was. I'm using Testing (Sarge), standard debian sources...nothing fancy. I'm not sure how up-to-date debian.org's package list is what what's actually on their sources, but according to the site it's version 0.11.12-1 (linkage: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=k3bsearchon=namessubword=1version=testingrelease=all) I appreciate everyone's assistance with helping me figure this problem out, the community never ceases to amaze me :) Until I can get k3b working correctly, I figure it's a good time to learn how to create and copy cd's and dvd's from the console...then I wouldn't have to deal with the gui's hehe. I notice a few people have posted some tips on this, any more you guys and gals can think of would be greatly appreciated. Searching through aptitude for cd and dvd brings up quite a few packages. Some appear to do the same thing, it's rather overwhelming. I tried the dd command someone mentioned earlier, I used it to try to copy one of my DVD movies (The Clearing). I ran dd if=/dev/cdrom of=the_clearing.iso. It ran for awhile then ended with some kind of read/write error. I think the iso was just over 700 mb in size. Seems like it should've been longer than that. I deleted the iso and tried again, same thing happened. I'm not sure how dd works, but for copying floppies I see people put in a size argument or something. I figured maybe since the command didn't specify one, dd got to the end of the cd and then threw and error because of it? I went ahead and tried to burn the iso using k3b. It burned ok, but the Dvd wouldn't play in my tv or fiancee's computer. The tv says there was some kind of error, the computer (running windows media player) said that the dvd wasn't formated to play in this region. I can post again later with the exact error message if you like, I can't recall what it was right now. On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 13:49:56 -0500, Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rthoreau wrote: Just installed K3b as a test, came up with the same bug, K3b does not detect dvd+rw-tools, then used dpkg --purge to purge dvd+rw-tools and reinstalled it, same problem. Seems like K3b is buggy, will wait to file bug report, in case first poster wants to. Kernel version 2.6.7. :uname -a Linux Raiz-mpx 2.6.7-mpx #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 09:58:16 CDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux kernel compiled from debian source. From K3b, Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin$ whereis dvd+rw-format dvd+rw-format: /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format Looks like everything else can find it except K3b. As stated else where, I do not thing the problem is burning the files, but it is erasing the disc if its a dvd+-rw with K3b, I seem to remember having similar problems with K3b some time ago might of been an early version maybe a year ago. I think I know what it was, it totally screwed up my /etc/fstab file, once I fixed it by hand, and did not let K3b setup use it again, still could not detect my cdrw right, even though I used the other options in K3b. Which version of K3b are you using? The other day, I installed the version from Sid (K3b 0.11.17). It found everything, including dvd+rw-format with no problem. Rick -- Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:05:31PM -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: Searching through aptitude for cd and dvd brings up quite a few packages. Some appear to do the same thing, it's rather overwhelming. apt-cache search some search term and some other search term might help here. I tried the dd command someone mentioned earlier, I used it to try to copy one of my DVD movies (The Clearing). I ran dd if=/dev/cdrom of=the_clearing.iso. It ran for awhile then ended with some kind of read/write error. I think the iso was just over 700 mb in size. Seems like it should've been longer than that. I deleted the iso and tried again, same thing happened. Do you have enough space on the partition? If you have about 700 MB free and you want to copy a dvd that is probably not enough and would indeed result in a write error. `df -h' helps here. You may need to use some other infile than /dev/cdrom because it is a dvd, but I'm not sure of that. I can't read dvds on my system. I loaded a cd. I have enough space on /opt, so I tried: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/opt/cdrom.iso After a while the following appeared: dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1273096+0 records in 1273096+0 records out 651825152 bytes transferred in 397,550926 seconds (1639602 bytes/sec) I think dd just reads until it encounters an error like this. Then that shouldn't be a problem. I mounted the resulting iso file on a loop device as root and that worked fine. There were md5sums of everything on the cd and they checked out fine as well. So at least for cds dd seems okay. I'm not sure how dd works, but for copying floppies I see people put in a size argument or something. I figured maybe since the command didn't specify one, dd got to the end of the cd and then threw and error because of it? I don't think so. dd will stop copying when it reaches the end of the input stream. The count argument is only needed when your infile doesn't have an end, e.g. with /dev/zero. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. - Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:16:54 -0600 Rthoreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Rodney D. Myers wrote: 2.6.8 have known problems with writing cd's, so I would assume it would aslo have problems writing dvd's. Either upgrade to 2.6.9 or downgrade to 2.6.7, and try to burn the dvd's. Just installed K3b as a test, came up with the same bug, K3b does not detect dvd+rw-tools, then used dpkg --purge to purge dvd+rw-tools and reinstalled it, same problem. Seems like K3b is buggy, will wait to file bug report, in case first poster wants to. Kernel version 2.6.7. :uname -a Linux Raiz-mpx 2.6.7-mpx #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 09:58:16 CDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux kernel compiled from debian source. From K3b, Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin$ whereis dvd+rw-format dvd+rw-format: /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format Looks like everything else can find it except K3b. As stated else where, I do not thing the problem is burning the files, but it is erasing the disc if its a dvd+-rw with K3b, I seem to remember having similar problems with K3b some time ago might of been an early version maybe a year ago. I think I know what it was, it totally screwed up my /etc/fstab file, once I fixed it by hand, and did not let K3b setup use it again, still could not detect my cdrw right, even though I used the other options in K3b. Rthoreau When I was running Libranet, debian derivative, it was noted that sometimes the permissions on some of the executables were not being set correctly. I don't have a dvd player/burner, so I'm not sure what they should be, though someone else may be able to offer that info. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgp0Bd2vLHJw4.pgp Description: PGP signature
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I appreciate your taking the time to test some of it out and teach me a few things. On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:59:04 +0100, Maurits van Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-cache search some search term and some other search term might help here. In regards to apt, I've always stuck with aptitude. I've been using linux for 3 years now, but only for a few months with Debian (I think i'll stick with Debian for many years, I love it). When I installed Debian it used aptitude, so I continued to use that program after installation was over and I got into my system. I read somewhere that if you install things without using aptitude, aptitude will mess up because it keeps track of what you install/uninstall. So I've been somewhat afraid of using any apt commands. In aptitude I hit / and typed in a regexp to search for. After reading 'man apt-cache' I'm assuing that the search functionality with '/' in aptitude is the same thing? If using the apt commands won't screw up my system I'd definitly give them a try, but I'm still leary of it due to my inexperience with debian and what I read when I first installed it. Do you have enough space on the partition? If you have about 700 MB free and you want to copy a dvd that is probably not enough and would indeed result in a write error. `df -h' helps here. I'm pretty certain my partition has enough space. I went ahead and had debian install everything to a single partition (/), that way I wouldn't have to worry about it. My hard-drive that has the '/' partition is 250gb. You may need to use some other infile than /dev/cdrom because it is a dvd, but I'm not sure of that. I can't read dvds on my system. I'm pretty sure /dev/cdrom is ok. I did a ls -l /dev/cdrom and found that /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/cdrom0, which is my dvd device. /dev/cdrom1 is my dvd-writer. I'm not sure why, but linux doesn't appear to differentiate the two. It sticks the master dvd/cd at /dev/cdrom0, and the slave at /dev/cdrom1. I loaded a cd. I have enough space on /opt, so I tried: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/opt/cdrom.iso After a while the following appeared: dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1273096+0 records in 1273096+0 records out 651825152 bytes transferred in 397,550926 seconds (1639602 bytes/sec) I think dd just reads until it encounters an error like this. Then that shouldn't be a problem. That's the same input/output error I got. I think I said read/write error in my post, but that was just the effects of a bad memory :) I mounted the resulting iso file on a loop device as root and that worked fine. There were md5sums of everything on the cd and they checked out fine as well. So at least for cds dd seems okay. I should try this and see if the mounted image from the iso looks the same as the original dvd disk. From what you've said, it appears my dd of the iso worked. It was a bit over 700 mb in size. But, when I tried to use K3b to copy the disk, it said the disk was too large (over 6 or 7 gb), and my recordable disks were too small (4.something gb). This makes me think dd really didn't work, that the iso wasn't complete? That would explain why when I burned a dvd from the iso tha tit wouldn't play. You say the cause of this is not having enough room on the partition. Perhaps I'm not understanding how partitions in linux work? When I installed Debian I had it put everything in a single partition (/), it said this was for newbies (I did it because it sounded easier hehe). Wouldn't that mean that the different directories (/home, /usr, /etc, etc) could get as big as they want, until the (/) partition hits 250gb? Or, even though everything is technically in one partition, is there some kind of virtual limit placed on the directories? The place I had dd save the iso was my home directory. Thanks again for all your help. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 03:28:25PM -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: I appreciate your taking the time to test some of it out and teach me a few things. My pleasure. Of course you use all advice from this mailing list at your own risk. ;-) If using the apt commands won't screw up my system I'd definitly give them a try, but I'm still leary of it due to my inexperience with debian and what I read when I first installed it. man apt-cache: DESCRIPTION apt-cache performs a variety of operations on APT's package cache. apt-cache does not manipulate the state of the system but does provide operations to search and generate interesting output from the package metadata. So you should be safe. You get things like this: $ apt-cache search dvd write bootcd - run your system from cd without need for disks bootcd-dvdplus - bootcd extension to use DVD+ media bootcd-hppa - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on parisc/hppa bootcd-i386 - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on i386. bootcd-ia64 - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on ia64 k3b - A sophisticated KDE cd burning application Only k3b is interesting here. `apt-cache show k3b' gives some info on k3b, though you already know what it is. Vary the search terms to your liking. `apt-cache search dvd' gives among others: dvd+rw-tools - DVD+-RW/R tools dvdauthor - create DVD-Video file system dvdbackup - Tool to rip DVD's from the command line These may all be interesting. At least you should probably use a tool from dvd+rw-tools instead of cdrecord. But my dvd knowledge is limited. From what you've said, it appears my dd of the iso worked. It was a bit over 700 mb in size. But, when I tried to use K3b to copy the disk, it said the disk was too large (over 6 or 7 gb), and my recordable disks were too small (4.something gb). This makes me think dd really didn't work, that the iso wasn't complete? That would explain why when I burned a dvd from the iso tha tit wouldn't play. Are you sure the size of the file isn't 7000 mb? Just checking the obvious. ;-) Mistakes are easy to make. Type `ls -sh name of image file' to be sure. If it really is 7 GB then a recordable of 4.x GB will not quite work. You say the cause of this is not having enough room on the partition. Perhaps I'm not understanding how partitions in linux work? When I installed Debian I had it put everything in a single partition (/), it said this was for newbies (I did it because it sounded easier hehe). Wouldn't that mean that the different directories (/home, /usr, /etc, etc) could get as big as they want, until the (/) partition hits 250gb? Correct. Or, even though everything is technically in one partition, is there some kind of virtual limit placed on the directories? The place I had dd save the iso was my home directory. If you really just have one partition of 250 GB then you should have plenty of free space. Try `df -h' to make sure. On my system: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb2 2,4G 121M 2,3G 6% / tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hdb1 9,1M 5,6M 3,1M 65% /boot /dev/hdb5 2,8G 897M 2,0G 32% /var /dev/hdb6 2,8G 2,2G 707M 76% /usr /dev/hdb7 93M 4,1M 84M 5% /tmp /dev/hdb8 1,1G 592M 497M 55% /home /dev/hdc2 19G 14G 5,7G 70% /music /dev/hdc3 48G 40G 8,1G 84% /backup Your output is probably very different, which is fine. If it is something like the following, without a mention of something mounted on /home and the amount mentioned under `Avail' is let's say more than 10G then free space isn't the problem. FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 250G ...G ...G ..% / -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. - Winston Churchill signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
major snip Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wrote Which version of K3b are you using? The other day, I installed the version from Sid (K3b 0.11.17). It found everything, including dvd+rw-format with no problem. The version I tested this with is with Sarge, K3b 0.11.12 Using KDE 3.2.3 which is supposed to be the stable version. If .x.x.17 is more stable then maybe they need to upload it into testing, aka Sarge. I only use three KDE programs, Konqueror, Kmail, now K3b. My window manager is xfce4. I like Konqueror for its file properities, its nice to see a man page in html, I use Kmail as its one of the best all in one mail apps. I just hate all the bloat, that kde and gnome have, I really like small window managers. Who knows maybe I will give that new nautilus-cd-burner a shot they say its drag n drop. Description: CD Burning front-end for Nautilus Lets you burn CDs and DVDs easily with GNOME, by drag-and-dropping files in the GNOME file manager. Depends: dbus-1 (= 0.22), libart-2.0-2 (= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (= 1.7.2), libaudiofile0 (= 0.2.3-4), libbonobo2-0 (= 2.8.0), libbonoboui2-0 (= 2.5.4), libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libeel2-2 (= 2.8.2), libesd0 (= 0.2.29-1) | libesd-alsa0 (= 0.2.29-1), libgail-common (= 1.6.6), libgail17 (= 1.6.6), libgconf2-4 (= 2.8.1), libgcrypt11, libglade2-0 (= 1:2.3.6), libglib2.0-0 (= 2.4.7), libgnome-keyring0 (= 0.4.0), libgnome2-0 (= 2.8.0), libgnomecanvas2-0 (= 2.6.0), libgnomeui-0 (= 2.8.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (= 2.8.0), libgnutls11 (= 1.0.16), libgpg-error0 (= 1.0), libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.4.4), libhal0 (= 0.2.93), libice6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libjpeg62, libnautilus-burn0 (= 2.8.3), libnautilus2-2 (= 2.7.1), liborbit2 (= 1:2.10.0), libpango1.0-0 (= 1.6.0), libpopt0 (= 1.7), libsm6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libtasn1-2 (= 0.2.8), libx11-6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libxml2 (= 2.6.11), zlib1g (= 1:1.2.1), mkisofs, cdrecord, nautilus Dang thats a lot of depends, maybe I will ponder that one for a while. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Brian Pack wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:53 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:26:01 -0600, Jeremy Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:40:38PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: What would you all suggest? K3b, though not GTK/Gnome, is perhaps the best burning program for linux there is. Take a look! I second this app. It also has the ability to disc-to-disc copy, as well as music CDs. I haven't tried it on a DVD burner, but I would guess that it includes this capability as well. Jeremy k3b. I third that :-) I use it on a dvd -rw burner to burn both cds and dvds (data, music, iso images etc). Very intuitive and very easy to use. And fourthed. It works extremely well as a DVD burner. As long as you have the files in the VIDEO_TS folder or an ISO, it will burn videos without a hiccup. No command-line tools? Is k3b a frontend to something? H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [...] No command-line tools? Is k3b a frontend to something? k3b is a front end to various commandline tools, among others: cdrecord, cdrado, growisofs Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:30:02AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: No command-line tools? Is k3b a frontend to something? k3b is apparently a fronted to: cdrecord, mkisofs, cdparanoia (apt-cache show k3b) cdrdao is another command-line cd burner, for disc at once burning, useful for audio. I use these four for burning CDs. apt-cache search burn turns up some more packages, maybe dvd+rw-tools, dvdbackup are useful? I don't have a dvd burner! Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:30:02AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: No command-line tools? Is k3b a frontend to something? k3b uses the command line cdrecord tool that does the real burning. Here is the depends list for my version of k3b: Depends: k3blibs (= 0.11.12), kdelibs4 (= 4:3.2.3), libart-2.0-2 (= 2.3.16), libarts1 (= 1.2.3), libasound2 ( 1.0.5), libaudio2, libaudiofile0 (= 0.2.3-4), libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libesd0 (= 0.2.29-1) | libesd-alsa0 (= 0.2.29-1), libfam0c102, libgcc1 (= 1:3.3.3-1), libglib2.0-0 (= 2.4.1), libice6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libmad0 (= 0.15.1b), libogg0 (= 1.1.0), libpng12-0 (= 1.2.5.0-4), libqt3c102-mt (= 3:3.2.3), libsm6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libstdc++5 (= 1:3.3.3-1), libvorbis0a (= 1.0.1), libvorbisfile3 (= 1.0.1), libx11-6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libxrender1, libxt6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), zlib1g (= 1:1.2.1), cdrecord (= 4:2.0+a18-1), cdparanoia (= 3a9.8), mkisofs (= 1.10), kdelibs-data (= 4:3.1.4-2), kdebase-bin To the original poster: your program may be able to clone a data cd/dvd if you provide it with an image file yourself. No touchy-feely GUI interface, but there you go. :) Insert the cd you want copied. On the command line type dd if=/dev/cdrom of=imagefile.iso where imagefile.iso should be on a partition where you have enough free space to store a cd image. 700 MB should usually do it. See `man dd' for more info. Now you should be able to burn that image file to a blank cd with your tool. If it can't handle image files, you may need to just copy the contents of the original cd/dvd to a new folder and burn that one. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. - Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I took everyone's advice and am giving k3b a try. I picked up a few DVD+R and DVD+RW discs (my drive supports both + and - protocols). I installed k3b with aptitude (I'm running Sarge). I started it up, and it's giving me an error/warning message which I'm not sure how to fix. It says the following: Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package. According to aptitude I have dvd+rw-tools installed. I checked /usr/bin and I see dvd+rw-format listed. I started up K3bSetup2 and checked, /usr/bin is in the search path, yet it still can't find dvd+rw-format. I tried added /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format to the search path, still no luck. I tried searching through some of the past archived post from this group but didn't have much luck. I've only been receiving this list for a week or so, so I apologize if there is a known fix for this that everyone but me knows. :) Does anyone have any suggestions for me to get k3b full working? If I'm doomed and must use the console to burn cd-r, cd-rw, dvd-r, and dvd-rw's, does anyone have some linkage to a nice tutorial describing how to do it? Thanks so much for your thoughts. Ben On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:17:09 +0100, Maurits van Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:30:02AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: No command-line tools? Is k3b a frontend to something? k3b uses the command line cdrecord tool that does the real burning. Here is the depends list for my version of k3b: Depends: k3blibs (= 0.11.12), kdelibs4 (= 4:3.2.3), libart-2.0-2 (= 2.3.16), libarts1 (= 1.2.3), libasound2 ( 1.0.5), libaudio2, libaudiofile0 (= 0.2.3-4), libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libesd0 (= 0.2.29-1) | libesd-alsa0 (= 0.2.29-1), libfam0c102, libgcc1 (= 1:3.3.3-1), libglib2.0-0 (= 2.4.1), libice6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libmad0 (= 0.15.1b), libogg0 (= 1.1.0), libpng12-0 (= 1.2.5.0-4), libqt3c102-mt (= 3:3.2.3), libsm6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libstdc++5 (= 1:3.3.3-1), libvorbis0a (= 1.0.1), libvorbisfile3 (= 1.0.1), libx11-6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libxrender1, libxt6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), zlib1g (= 1:1.2.1), cdrecord (= 4:2.0+a18-1), cdparanoia (= 3a9.8), mkisofs (= 1.10), kdelibs-data (= 4:3.1.4-2), kdebase-bin To the original poster: your program may be able to clone a data cd/dvd if you provide it with an image file yourself. No touchy-feely GUI interface, but there you go. :) Insert the cd you want copied. On the command line type dd if=/dev/cdrom of=imagefile.iso where imagefile.iso should be on a partition where you have enough free space to store a cd image. 700 MB should usually do it. See `man dd' for more info. Now you should be able to burn that image file to a blank cd with your tool. If it can't handle image files, you may need to just copy the contents of the original cd/dvd to a new folder and burn that one. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. - Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:52:38 -0500 Ben Bettin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks so much for your thoughts. Ben What kernel are you running? Hopefully not the 2.6.8. It's known not to work . -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgplgrrgEJV0k.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Over the years one of the few things that has forced me to keep a windows install handy was cd writing. Recently I was finally able to kick the M$ habit, after discovering the ease of Nautilus's data cd creation in Gnome, but it doesn't do everything I'd like to do. I could be wrong, but from what I can tell the built-in Nautilus cd creator only does data cd's, you can't copy cd's with it? I recently purchased a dvd-writer because cd's arn't holding all of my stuff. Does the built-in Nautilus burner do data dvd disks? If the Nautilus creator only does the creation of data cd/dvd's, I need a simple way to copy cd's and dvd's. I'd prefer not to have to use the console. I would definitly prefer a method which integrates nicely into Gnome like the Nautilus one does. What would you all suggest? I used Xcdroast a while back, it seemed a bit shaky and was a bit of a pain to get working. I've browsed around on google a bit for other options, but there seem to be soo many choices and I'd rather find out what you people think than try them all :) I use Debian Testing (Sarge). Thank you for your advice! Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: If the Nautilus creator only does the creation of data cd/dvd's, I need a simple way to copy cd's and dvd's. I'd prefer not to have to use the console. I would definitly prefer a method which integrates nicely into Gnome like the Nautilus one does. What would you all suggest? K3b, though not GTK/Gnome, is perhaps the best burning program for linux there is. Take a look! -r -- Rodney Gordon II (meff) | meff at pobox dot com http://www.spherevision.org | AIM: mefforz signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:40:38PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: What would you all suggest? K3b, though not GTK/Gnome, is perhaps the best burning program for linux there is. Take a look! I second this app. It also has the ability to disc-to-disc copy, as well as music CDs. I haven't tried it on a DVD burner, but I would guess that it includes this capability as well. Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:26:01 -0600, Jeremy Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:40:38PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: What would you all suggest? K3b, though not GTK/Gnome, is perhaps the best burning program for linux there is. Take a look! I second this app. It also has the ability to disc-to-disc copy, as well as music CDs. I haven't tried it on a DVD burner, but I would guess that it includes this capability as well. Jeremy k3b. I third that :-) I use it on a dvd -rw burner to burn both cds and dvds (data, music, iso images etc). Very intuitive and very easy to use. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Cornell University http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flumech/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:53 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:26:01 -0600, Jeremy Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:40:38PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: What would you all suggest? K3b, though not GTK/Gnome, is perhaps the best burning program for linux there is. Take a look! I second this app. It also has the ability to disc-to-disc copy, as well as music CDs. I haven't tried it on a DVD burner, but I would guess that it includes this capability as well. Jeremy k3b. I third that :-) I use it on a dvd -rw burner to burn both cds and dvds (data, music, iso images etc). Very intuitive and very easy to use. And fourthed. It works extremely well as a DVD burner. As long as you have the files in the VIDEO_TS folder or an ISO, it will burn videos without a hiccup. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
