DVD burning problems

[John]

Robert Parker wrote:
> Burnt a ~4 gig iso to dvd like so:
> 
> growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdc=mybig.iso
> 
> which is straight off the man page with relevant substitutions.
> 
> Unfortunately, it puts the iso within another iso so that when I mount 
> /dev/hdc with the burnt dvd in it the content is just
> 'mybig.iso' instead of the internals of the original iso.
> 
> I could easily loop mount the iso and burn the directory tree as above but 
> that will be useless if the iso image is intended to be bootable.
> 
> This is my first attempt at dvd burning in Linux so any advice will be 
> appreciated.

Have you checked that mybig.iso isn't an ISO containing a ISO?

Here is an actual command I've used and that worked as expected:
time growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=echidna.iso

This is on Sarge; It might with with a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel; I mustly run 2.4.