On Wednesday 22 April 2009 03:20:01 am G T Smith wrote:
Try following at CLI....
wodim dev=<devicename> -prcap
to get an idea of what wodim knows about media and drive. This command will probably need to be run as root.
For burning use
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z <device name>=<iso source>
see man growisofs.
K3b monkeys around with default settings and special switches when the defaults work 90% of the time on good hardware and media. I would at the moment use K3b to build an image but not to burn it.
What may also help is if try...
isovfy <device name>
see man isovfy
to check the integrity of the image (of limited value but of some use).
Thanks to all who have responded., I haven't been ignoring your suggestions, but trying them all. I've had no success burning the bootable iso onto a dvd. That is, it looks like everythign is there but the dvd wont boot. So I booted into vista which is still on this machine and burned the same iso image with the same results. My conclusion is the dvd writer may be defective or the iso image is bad. Am downloading a new and different iso image to make another check. BTW, the laptop is a new Dell inspiron 1545 which I've had for only a few weeks. The media is both memorex and Ridata which I have used many times. All are x4 for dvds and each app burns at less than 4x. Until now I've never had a problem except for my own stupidity or temporary problems with updates to k3b or the programs it uses. Again, thanks for the assistance. I'll report the results of my testing. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org