DVD burning problems

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 08:19:05PM +1100, 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.

I do this all the time (it's how I burn Ubuntu test CD images), and it has
never behaved this way for me.  The only difference is that I do not use
-dvd-compat, but I don't think that should matter.

Try right-clicking on the ISO in Nautilus and burning it that way.

Also, I hate to ask, but have you loop-mounted the ISO and made _certain_
that it doesn't contain a file 'mybig.iso'? :-)

-- 
 - mdz