Unable To Write To DVD

[Jeffrey D. Yuille]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>     I have an IBM ThinkPad T-30 and I recently bought a DVD+RW drive 
>> to use with it.  I had downloaded a DVD iso file from one of the 
>> Fedora Core 6 mirrors.  When I try to write the iso file to a DVD +R 
>> disk, I continue to get the error "The data does not fit on disk.  
>> The .iso file is 3.3G and the disk is 4.7G.  What gives?  I am using 
>> K3b to burn the data to the disk but I continue to come up with this 
>> problem.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Any help would be 
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>
> Try writing from a command prompt instead:
>
> growisofs -Z /dev/dvdwriter=FC-6-i386-DVD.iso
>
> First check that /dev/dvdwriter exists and is a symlink
> to the correct drive.
>
> Mogens
>
Hello Mogens,

    I checked to see if there was a symlink was present for 
/dev/dvdwriter.  First, there no dvdwriter file present.  The only thing 
I see is are symlinks for the previous DVD-ROM (which was a removable 
drive) which says "dvd" and "dvd-hdc". How do I create this file  with a 
symlink, or should the OS recognize this on its own and create the 
symlinks?  Please help.

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Jeffrey D. Yuille
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