mark
2004-07-15, 07:39 AM CDT
I never knew...
I finished downloading the FC3 Test 1 DVD ISO last night, went out this afternoon & bought a 10-pack of DVD+RW discs. I then fired up K3b to burn the disc. Everything seemed okay - but it spit out the tray much too early, albeit saying that the burn had completed okay. Checking the disc, the only thing there was the volume name! I looked at the options, checked my drive selection (Lite-On SOHW 812S DVDRW, right enough) and scratched my head. Tried it again, same results.
Finally, I fired up nautilus , navigated to the ISO file, right-clicked and burned away. I'd been chary of this since the docs never referred to DVDs - only CDs. Lo and behold, c. 15-20 minutes later, there's my bootable, pass-the-media-checkable, installable (up to the point of actually writing anything - I'm getting a "scratch" HD for that - I'm chicken, okay?) DVD.
Sometimes I tend to complicate things...
I finished downloading the FC3 Test 1 DVD ISO last night, went out this afternoon & bought a 10-pack of DVD+RW discs. I then fired up K3b to burn the disc. Everything seemed okay - but it spit out the tray much too early, albeit saying that the burn had completed okay. Checking the disc, the only thing there was the volume name! I looked at the options, checked my drive selection (Lite-On SOHW 812S DVDRW, right enough) and scratched my head. Tried it again, same results.
Finally, I fired up nautilus , navigated to the ISO file, right-clicked and burned away. I'd been chary of this since the docs never referred to DVDs - only CDs. Lo and behold, c. 15-20 minutes later, there's my bootable, pass-the-media-checkable, installable (up to the point of actually writing anything - I'm getting a "scratch" HD for that - I'm chicken, okay?) DVD.
Sometimes I tend to complicate things...