From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 08:47:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77A616A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071F243D83 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:47:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 22-15.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.22.15] helo=yoda.datawok.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AgoAV-0004re-00 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:46:59 -0800 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:47:01 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401141047.01175.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b3f933dbae7854a8c229a3077fc9c7730350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Subject: FYI - Burned DVD-R on FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:47:21 -0000 A while ago there was an email thread regarding the possibility of burning DVD-R's using dvd+rw-tools. My first attempt to do so failed when using a Memorex DVD-R. Since someone else posted problems creating a bootable CD using Memorex media, I tried again using another brand. My second attempt, using an imation DVD-R, was successful: OS: FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE Port: dvd+rw-tools-5.13.4.7.4 Burner: SONY DVD RW DRU-500A DVD-R: imation DVD-R 4.7GB - Data DVD-R for general version 2.0 The following command, executed by root, burned all of the files in the current working directory (2.7GB) to a new DVD-R (not mounted) at /dev/cd0c: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0c -r -l ./* The resulting DVD-R was readable by the burner and by: Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-352B (WinXP Pro on desktop PC) Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2102 (Win2K Pro and FreeBSD 4.9 Stable on laptop) Caveat: I have read the text files on the DVD-R; but I have not tried to reload the database backup files. Best of luck, Andrew Gould