CD/DVD Burners.

[Leigh Honeywell]

Alfred,

Much more likely than a Linux ISO vendor using any sort of copy
protection (which would definitely violate the GPL) is that your DVD
drive isn't working well any more or that the disc is scratched.  Can you
have someone else try to copy it?

-Leigh


On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:31:00PM -0400, Alfred wrote:
> Hi:
> >>>What are you using to copy the DVD?
> 
> I tried to use all the available programs to copy. Brasero, CD/DVD Gnome
> Baker, k3b, X-CD Roast. In windows 98 Nero, in Windows 2000 Nero. None
> of these programs would work. Perhaps for 7 years I've been playing with
> Linux. I started with Mandrake 8.1, had no idea what I was doing. I was
> using Windows almost all the time. Then the Linux Cafe here gave me one
> day Ubuntu 4.10, and I went with that, until the present day. Some
> versions of Ubuntu I got from High Speed Downloading, from someone in
> town, that would charge $5.00 for a DVD, with the ISO. The Copy Programs
> worked then. Other times the versions came from Flipside, and then
> things didn't work. 
> 
> At times I tried to learn the Shell, but I'm both Rusty, and a New at
> it. I have several Linux books that seem like they are 1/4 century old,
> and one recent one made for Ubuntu.  I'm doing many other things too,
> and quite often can't find the time to, continue with things. You would
> probably know, and could tell what Copy Protection if any there is. My
> DVD Burner is a few years old now. Lately it does not always mount a
> disk. In the good old days you could wash it in something like freon,
> and all the dust build up in it would get removed and then it would be
> like Brand New. Haven't found anything yet that could do the same job,
> and not harm the environment, so it's perhaps get a new one. They used
> to have those Piezio Electric Washing Trays that would even get the old
> grease out of the things. I use Linux now 99.9% of the time. 
> 
> >>>If you can dd from the DVD to disk to get an ISO file, then the
> problem
> is elsewhere.
> 
> I'll look up on how to do this and give it a try. I still keep a Linux Diary, but haven't done dd yet.
> 
> Alfred!
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> From: mcr at simtone.net
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> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: CD/DVD Burners.
> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:45:43 -0400
> 
> What are you using to copy the DVD?
> 
> If you can dd from the DVD to disk to get an ISO file, then the problem
> is elsewhere.
> 
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