[PLUG] Using Knoppix to burn data to DVD
Don J.
auderive at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 17:58:17 UTC 2007
How about just booting off a USB key with a rescue image? Also if the
GUI burning app is giving you hassles, try bashburn--it is about the
best burning software out there.
Don
On 10/17/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> While fiddling with the boogered up drive, I want to copy ~/ to DVDs
> using a Knoppix live CD. The laptop has a DVD drive, but the Knoppix CD
> was in it when I launched K3b. I had to use the paper clip to eject it,
> after which I inserted a blank DVD. Knoppix sees /dev/hda2 and K3b lets
> me drag files from ~/ to its Burn window. But when I tell it to burn
> the DVD I get:
>
> Waiting for media...
> Writing DVD+R
> Using growisofs 6.1 - Copyright ... etc.
> Starting writing...
> :-( unable to O_EXCL /dev/hdc: someone was in time to remount?
> Fatal error at startup: Device or resource busy
> mkisofs did not exit cleanly
> Error while4 creating ISO image
> Unable to eject media
>
> I'm not sure what "someone was in time to remount?" means. I tried
> remounting /dev/hdc, but I can't open a terminal without the Knoppix CD
> in the drive. This arrangement isn't working. There must be a simpler
> way to do this. How do you use a live CD to burn data to the same drive
> that the live CD is in?
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