Creating a DVD with the mkdvd command

[spamly]

Can anyone tell me the command to create a DVD from an ISO?

I've created an ISO image with the command:
mkdvd -I /nim_mnt -S

Now that I have the image, I'd like to make a DVD out of it.

 

[lpblauen]

download it to your pc and use nero to make the dvd. Just remember to add the iso extention to the file name.

 

[spamly]

Unfortunately, I don't have a DVD burner on my PC. I've used that procedure before using burnatonce and my cd writer, but that just isn't an option for me right now.

 

[p5wizard]

Have you tried burn_cd command? See if it is linked to /usr/samples/oem_cdwriters/burn_cd_gnu_dvdram

Or use that sample script itself (have a look through it):

/usr/samples/oem_cdwriters/burn_cd_gnu_dvdram -d /dev/cd0 /path/to/iso_file



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[spamly]

It looks like the burn_cd_gnu_dvdram command eventually calls the readcd command. This one errors out though.

# /usr/local/bin/readcd -w dev=/dev/cd0 f=/nim_mnt/cd_image_4317544
/usr/local/bin/readcd: Error 0. Cannot open SCSI driver.

For the love of pete!

 

[p5wizard]

what type of DVD-RAM drive do you have?

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[spamly]

I've got an "IDE DVD-RAM Drive". The same one that comes standard with P570s.

lscfg -vp -lcd0
cd0 U7879.001.DQDFGZT-P4-D1 IDE DVD-RAM Drive

Manufacturer................IBM
Machine Type and Model......RMBO0020511
ROS Level and ID............1.07
Device Specific.(Z0)........058002028F000030
Part Number.................97P6883
EC Level....................H85886
FRU Number..................97P6884


PLATFORM SPECIFIC

Name: disk
Node: disk@0
Device Type: block
Physical Location: U7879.001.DQDFGZT-P4-D1

 

[p5wizard]

You can't burn an iso-file on that one. Only supported way to make a filesystem is to create an UDF filesystem on it...

udfcreate -d /dev/cd0
mount -v udfs /dev/cd0 /mnt/dvd
then you can copy files/dirs to the DVD filesystem as any other FS.

On newer type DVD-ROM drives you can use the UDF-DVD even on windows systems.

You can try to dd the iso-file to a DVD-RAM disk, but it is going to take a LONG time...

dd if=/path/to/iso_file of=/dev/cd0 bs=1024

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[spamly]

I was hoping to make a bootable mksysb DVD. Too bad.

I was able to come up with a portable DVD burner that I've thrown on my PC. I'll try burning an image to that and booting from it later today.

Thanks for your help.

 

[p5wizard]

mksysb also supports UDFS on DVD-RAM disks

see man page for mkcd - see -U option - no iso_file needed


HTH,

p5wizard