Re: Routine Running

[Doug Welch <welch@physics.mcmaster.ca>]

Tom,

There is a package called k3b which is based on growisofs and provides
the GUI interface. My experience is the same as Rob's in that it
will burn a full DVD of data in 12 to 15 minutes. It *is* necessary
to check the "Create Udf structures" under one of its menus to get
it to work (properly) for DVDs - under Mandrake 10.0 that checkbox 
is not checked by default.

I have two LG 4040B's which do all the DVD formats including DVD-RAM.
They work like a charm!

Cheers,
Doug

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Thomas Droege wrote:

> Just running away.  The biggest chore of this project is now writing the
> images to CD.  Eventually I might switch to DVD, but not until I can just
> use something like xcdroast to write them.  Several tries have not worked
> yet.
> 
> So I sit there and shove CDs into the writer and wait.  The time is too
> short to do something else, but too long not to be boring.  Sigh!  15 CDs
> from last night's run used up several hours.  
> 
> The network still hangs from time to time.  This seems to be caused by the
> Windows 98 end doing something wrong.  This hangs the Linux end.  If I get
> to the Windows machine quick enough and reboot it, then everything
> recovers.  If I wait too long, then the Linux end hangs and I have to
> reboot the Linux machine.  OK, we have tried in the past without success to
> un hang the Linux end.  I have forgotten all the things to restart.  But I
> think it is not so bad that I really want to solve this problem.  I really
> need to sit there and check everything on startup, because I often find
> something wrong.  Just griping.
> 
> Tom Droege
> 
> 
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