RH8.0 to Fedora2 migration using DVD-ROM

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Sat Jul 10 18:59:49 UTC 2004


On Sat, 10 Jul 2004,  Hans-Olof Hansson  wrote:

> I'm planning to migrate my RH8.0 environment to Fedora2 using med newly bought DVD-RW reader/writer. So far
> with-out minimum success. 
> 
> I have, however, managed so far do do the following: 
> - Download the (very) large Fedora 2 Core DVD iso-file
> - Enabled ATAPI support for my IDE DVD-writer. It is found by 'cdrecord -scanbus' 
>     and X-CD-Roast also identifies the proper device and make of the writer
> 
> But, none of the CD-writing programs found in RH8 or using Red-Carpet, seems to be able to write a DVD iso-image.
> However, CD-ROMs of diffent sizes and types are all OK. I have so far not managed to find a DVD-writer to use. Not
> even from Commercial DVD-writer demo-software. 
> 
> What I need, in short, is a program that could write the Fedora2 DVD iso-file to DVD-R on my RH8.0 system. Anyone
> who know about such a program? 

You need to get dvdrecord, at a minimum, dvdrecord, and you'll need a key 
to make it work.
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