Re: a simple way to burn DVDs

On Wed, 11 May 2005 15:46:06 -0400, William Stanard wrote:

> I've purchased and correctly installed (it reads data CDs just fine,
> mounted with "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" ) a HI-VAL DVD_RW/_R rewritable
> drive in my Compaq Proliant 800 server running Red Hat 8.0 (ver 2.4.18-14
> ) in preparation to setting up the drive to do my backup chores. There
> doesn't, however, seem to be a simple application as part of this
> particular Red Hat build that writes to DVDs. Am I missing something, or
> do I have to purchase, for instance, NeroLINUX or some other utility for
> writing data to DVDs?
>
> Bill Stanard

I haven't seen ANYONE answer you. Your question is direct and to the
point and I absolutely hate it when users answer questions with vague and
inadaquate replies that dont' even come close to what information your
looking for.

The answer to your question, as I see it, is YES... If you want to use KDE or
GNOME then you can use (k3b in KDE) or (Gnomebaker in GNOME). Both do a very
good job of working with DVD's of all types. (ie DVD-R DVD+R DVD+-RW etc..)
as well as all the CD types.

XCDroast is another generic non/gui specific app but it requires a 'nonfree' plugin
type thingie 'pro-cdrecord ??' so I don't use it. Besides, the version I installed
only looked for SCSI device and I have IDE optical drives.. They offered help on
how to impliment ide-scsi emulation but I didn't want to do that and didn't think I
should have to. If I have to make concessions just to use it, then I'll go somewhere
else.. :-)

Hope this helps..

mr mike..

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