Write CD specific img file to DVD media.

l300lvl · September 27, 2012, 5:28am

I know it’s a bit wasteful, but these days DVD-Rs are pretty commonplace and I have pleanty of them. I scoured the web and so far there is one single possible way I have found to achieve this task.

That is: write a cd formatted image file, iso or other, to a blank dvd. Sometimes dvd isos are not available for a certain distro, and those happen to be some of the images I like to test on older machines.

I have attempted this with many other apps including Nero, gnome baker, x-toast(name iirc), brasero, etc. Not tried any kde apps as that is a lot to pull in, but if theres a chance it works, I would be happy to try it on a live usb. Ofc that’ll be a few hours of downloading still.

The only option I know of is using iso recorder under windows. Surely there has to be another way, windows or otherwise? ofc, I’d prefer it not being windows, but beggers cant be choosers.

caf4926 · September 27, 2012, 5:40am

I’m not clear on what you want

Do you mean, you want to write a CD image to DVD? This is easy…
What problem do you encounter?

caf4926 · September 27, 2012, 5:47am

I use KDE
In k3b my process is:
Insert blank DVD, ignore all popup requests on how to deal with it.
Manually open k3b
Navigate in k3b file browser to the .iso and click it
This loads the .iso and does a md5sum check
You can now burn the .iso

malcolmlewis · September 27, 2012, 5:52am

l300lvl:

I know it’s a bit wasteful, but these days DVD-Rs are pretty commonplace
and I have pleanty of them. I scoured the web and so far there is one
single possible way I have found to achieve this task.

That is: write a cd formatted image file, iso or other, to a blank dvd.
Sometimes dvd isos are not available for a certain distro, and those
happen to be some of the images I like to test on older machines.

I have attempted this with many other apps including Nero, gnome baker,
x-toast(name iirc), brasero, etc. Not tried any kde apps as that is a
lot to pull in, but if theres a chance it works, I would be happy to try
it on a live usb. Ofc that’ll be a few hours of downloading still.

The only option I know of is using iso recorder under windows. Surely
there has to be another way, windows or otherwise? ofc, I’d prefer it
not being windows, but beggers cant be choosers.

Hi
Doesn’t matter what the media size is as long as the size of the medium
is bigger that the image your trying to burn?

img files should be iso images, rename it and see if it opens with
fle-roller.

In Nautilus you can use burn:// there is cdrecord as well.

BTW it’s xcdroast…

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l300lvl · September 28, 2012, 1:23am

Nautilus works to write iso files? The problem is not with the image, iso/img etc, it’s with the software or the libs behind it, otherwise it wouldn’t work under isorecorder on Windows. I have read newer Nero works on windows as well, but I already have a windows option.

The normal problem that occurs is that it fails, as in, most generally I recieve an “imcompatible media” error, with all of the programs I mentioned above ^ ^ . Except for isorecorder, which never complains about the media. And to clarify, I’m pretty sure there are ways to create image files specifically for a cd or a dvd, which was my assumption as to why this error happens under so many programs with dvd media and cd images but not with cd media with cd images.

K3b may work, but it’s not worth pulling in all the deps.

Any other ideas? I am open to trying k3b as a last resort, but there HAS to be another way under gnome. Perhaps I should ask on the gnome mailing list as well.

Tyler_K · September 28, 2012, 1:39am

There is no may about it

but it’s not worth pulling in all the deps.
fair enough if you don’t want to bring in the Qt/KDE stuff

Any other ideas? I am open to trying k3b as a last resort, but there HAS to be another way under gnome. Perhaps I should ask on the gnome mailing list as well.
How about doing KDE in a VM?

malcolmlewis · September 28, 2012, 2:49am

l300lvl:

malcolmlewis;2490923 Wrote:
> Hi
> Doesn’t matter what the media size is as long as the size of the
> medium
> is bigger that the image your trying to burn?
>
> img files should be iso images, rename it and see if it opens with
> fle-roller.
>
> In Nautilus you can use burn:// there is cdrecord as well.
>
> BTW it’s xcdroast…
>
> –
> Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
> openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.6-2.10-desktop
> up 1 day 14:23, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.06
> CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

Nautilus works to write iso files? The problem is not with the image,
iso/img etc, it’s with the software or the libs behind it, otherwise it
wouldn’t work under isorecorder on Windows. I have read newer Nero works
on windows as well, but I already have a windows option.

The normal problem that occurs is that it fails, as in, most generally
I recieve an “imcompatible media” error, with all of the programs I
mentioned above ^ ^ . Except for isorecorder, which never complains
about the media.

K3b may work, but it’s not worth pulling in all the deps.

Any other ideas? I am open to trying k3b as a last resort, but there
HAS to be another way under gnome. Perhaps I should ask on the gnome
mailing list as well.

Hi
I have no issues with brasero, erasing, writing etc.

What is your device (need to be root)?


cdrecord --scanbus
hwinfo --cdrom

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l300lvl · September 28, 2012, 3:04am

Kde in vm, nah. I will pull everything in first.

I say may, because for all the other progs I have tested to not work, putting that amount of faith in a single kde app is a maybe, to me. But it’s worth a shot!

This is everything it’s pulling in(besides libs) that I worry about, I’ll check them all later for new services etc, but just incase I have to remove any of them quickly:

ptools soprano sox strigi vcdimager virtuoso words kdialog kdelibs4 kdelibs4-core kdebase4-runtime kde4-filesystem ispell htdig enscript shared-desktop-ontologies

l300lvl · September 28, 2012, 3:05am

malcolmlewis:

Hi
I have no issues with brasero, erasing, writing etc.

What is your device (need to be root)?
cdrecord --scanbus
hwinfo --cdrom
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Basero works great in every way except in this very specific use case, I’ll post back with the results of those commands.

l300lvl · September 28, 2012, 3:10am


# cdrecord --scanbus
...
scsibus1:
	1,0,0	100) 'Memorex ' 'DVD+/-DLRWL1 F16' 'BWSE' Removable CD-ROM


 # hwinfo --cdrom
28: SCSI 100.0: 10602 CD-ROM (DVD)                              
  [Created at block.249]
  Unique ID: cLrx.uk9J2uLauj2
  Parent ID: x_X+.vw_Z6hfmSj8
  SysFS ID: /class/block/sr0
  SysFS BusID: 1:0:0:0
  SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0
  Hardware Class: cdrom
  Model: "Memorex DVD+/-DLRWL1 F16"
  Vendor: usb 0x152d "Memorex"
  Device: usb 0x2338 "DVD+/-DLRWL1 F16"
  Revision: "BWSE"
  Serial ID: "4102D6D375D6"
  Driver: "usb-storage", "sr"
  Driver Modules: "usb_storage"
  Device File: /dev/sr0 (/dev/sg1)
  Device Files: /dev/sr0, /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom1, /dev/cdrw1, /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Memorex_DVD+_-DLRWL1_F16_4102D6D375D6-0:0, /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:12.2-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0, /dev/dvd1, /dev/dvdrw1
  Device Number: block 11:0 (char 21:1)
  Features: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, MRW, MRW-W
  Speed: 480 Mbps
  Module Alias: "usb:v152Dp2338d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic08isc06ip50"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: uas is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe uas"
  Driver Info #1:
    Driver Status: usb_storage is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe usb_storage"
  Drive status: no medium
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #8 (USB Controller)
  Drive Speed: 48

malcolmlewis · September 28, 2012, 3:30am

Hi
A google on “Memorex DVD+/-DLRWL1 F16”+DVD-R shows a few others having
issues, what is the actual media brand of the DVD-R’s?

Some threads also suggest KB3…

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montana_suse_user · October 13, 2012, 12:26pm

As usual, CAF4926 has given a reply that is concise and works. I use k3b for all my burning but had never tried writing a CD image file to a DVD disk. So, I tried it by burning a CD iso file of openSuse 12.2 Live CD, using a TDK DVD+R disk, to one of my Lightscribe drives. The resulting DVD was 670 megs in size and booted on my Toshiba laptop just fine.

As far as dragging in a bunch of dependencies, it would seem to me to be a non-issue. As I use Evolution as a mail client, I have a bunch of Gnome stuff on my drive. I’ve never been bothered by this. It would seem to be a far, far better situation than booting to Windows. I’m just saying.