[PLUG] Burning DVDs

[Fedor Pikus]

On 5/15/05, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> OK, overnight I succeeded in downloading Mandriva Linux 2005 LE
> DVD .86_64. It's in 6 files, four ISOs of approximately 695 Mb, labeled
> CD1, CD2, CD3 and CD4, and two very small plain text files. 

Sounds like you downloaded 4 CD images, not a DVD image. If you want
to use these, burn them to CDs as usual (cdrecord -v -eject
image.iso).

> This new
> Compaq R4000 laptop has a DVD burner, but I've never used it to burn
> anything yet. However, I have burned CD ISOs from my Windows computer
> using Nero, and I know you don't just copy the files. The laptop is
> currently running Mandriva 2005 LE from the three-CD download, which
> doesn't give me all drivers and goodies I need.
> 
> I've looked around and can't find much on burning ISOs to DVD. I did
> discover that if I right-click on a file I can select "burn to CD," but
> that works only for one file at a time. If I select all six files the
> option is no longer available. Evidently I need a different package.
> What is the best software to do it? Are there any special tricks?

The easiest is to install k3b from http://k3b.sourceforge.net/, you'll
need some other tools which are listed on K3B's web page.



> 
> Also a related question. I started the download about 2 pm Saturday. It
> got to 36% and stopped dead. After an hour of watching with not one more
> byte downloaded I killed it and restarted the download. However, that
> 36% did download one complete file -- an ISO of 1.6 Gb. That makes no
> sense. Why are the files different, when I clicked on the same exact
> link on the MandrivaClub site? Plus, everything on the MandrivaClub site
> indicates that the DVD versions are around 4 Gb, but the six files I
> finally received total about 2.7 Gb. Please don't tell me I have to do
> this over again with that awful BitTorrent thing!
> 
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