Burning DVDs

Paul Bridger paul.bridger at uk.tiscali.com
Fri Oct 14 17:26:47 PDT 2005


Hi Edward 

I found this document very useful recently for burning CD's and DVD's.  It's 
CLI only (no GUI's), but is quite straight forward when you get the hang of 
it: 

http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Unix/FreeBSD-Burning.php 

Paul 

 


Robert Marella writes: 

> On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:50:34 +0200
> edward <kouye at wanadoo.fr> wrote: 
> 
>> Hi all,
>> My DVD drive read and mounts CDs and DVDs properly, but K3B refuses to
>> burn : "K3B did not find a suitable writer. You will only be able to 
>> create an image". Gut feeling is that there probably is something
>> wrong in the drive's read/write permission. I checked the /etc/fstab
>> file for read/write status and I got the following : 
>> 
>> # Device           Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
>> Pass# /dev/ad0s3b        none            swap    sw
>> 0       0 /dev/ad0s3a        /               ufs     rw
>> 1       1 /dev/acd0          /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto
>> 0       0 
>> 
>> This was the default set up that I haven't altered (yet...). Is there
>> a reason why the DVD drive would be set in read only mode, as a
>> default ? Should I just launch vi and edit the line from ro,noauto to
>> rw,noauto or is there another way ?
>> Thanks,
>> Edward 
>> 
>> 
> 
> less /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b/pkg-message 
> 
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