On Thursday 30 November 2006 23:27, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
Hello,
Okay, okay, now I am able to burn a Fedora Core 6 DVD iso image to
disk. The only problem now is that it only seems to make a copy of
the DVD iso image onto the disk instead of making a bootable disk and
creating files that I can actually see when the disk is finished
being burned. I am using k3b as my burning software. Again, what
gives? After googling and seeing that my original problem was a disk
limitation size of 2 GB, I bought a dual layer disk to burn the image
onto it. I never had this problem when trying to burn regular CD's to
put Fedora on it. Please help.
Jeffrey:
You must have misunderstood the thread that you initiated earlier this
week. When you burn the .iso file to DVD, k3b will convert it into a
series of directories and files (mostly .rpms, but lots of other
goodies, too) during the burning process. And you don't need a dual
layer disk, either.
Here's how I do it:
1. Place a blank DVD in your drive. (I use generic DVD-R disks because
that's what I have.)
2. Start k3b.
3. Point it at the .iso file. k3b will automagically understand what it
is supposed to do.
4. I always change the default settings to let k3b select the burn
speed, and I also tell k3b to verify the written disk.
5. The burning process took a little over five minutes.
6. At the conclusion of the burning process, the disk is ejected and
reinserted, and the verification process begins. FWIW, that took
another 6+ minutes.
7. If all has gone well, the DVD is ejected and triumphal music is
played.
8. Close k3b, and you're done.
-- cmg