- Something wrong with mkisofs/growisofs
- Posted by Michael W. Cocke on February 18th, 2004
This used to work properly, now it doesn't, and I'm out of things to
try. I have a 3Gb data file that I'm trying to burn to a 4.7 Gb DVD.
mkisofs and growisofs both say it won't fit...
I can and have formatted the DVD (and other media - same problem), and
it's recognized as a 4.7 Gb disk. If I use growisofs to burn
/dev/zero, the byte count is correct. but if I try to actually burn
data, no go. It's not just this particular data file - it's any data
file of a similar size.
My guess, since I can burn 4.7 Gb of zeros to the media, is that it's
mkisofs specifically that's my problem. Just for grins, I read thru
the mkisofs (version 2.0.1.a17) man page, and I don't actually see a
way to tell it if I'm trying to build for a CD or a DVD - and I have a
hunch that's the problem. But how _DO_ I tell it it's for a DVD and
not a CD???
What the heck????
Mike-
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- Posted by Alan Connor on February 19th, 2004
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:37:45 -0500, Michael W Cocke wrote:
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sig without proper delimeter, massively-oversized, and containing
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That's an easy one. But I don't help people with grotesquely out-of-line
signatures that are basically spamming the Usenet.
You have been informed of your Netiquette violations before, and given this
link too:
http://www.faqs.org/usenet/
See the "netiquette" and "rules for posting" links on that page.
Please do not help this person.
He is a BAD Usenet citizen.
AC
- Posted by Ed Murphy on February 19th, 2004
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 01:58:21 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
No, you waste TWICE AS MUCH SPACE yelling and screaming. Smart move.
Homer: By the way, that was intended to be sarcastic!
Marge: Like I couldn't figure *that* out...
- Posted by Michael W. Cocke on February 19th, 2004
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 04:50:39 GMT, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@socal.rr.com>
wrote:
Alan does that to me with every question I post - he always knows the
answer, but never wants to give it out... Personally, I think he
doesn't have a clue but feels bad if he can't complain at least daily.
What's really amusing is that he's wasted FAR more bandwidth
complaining about my sig than I'll ever use. and he doesn't even
realize that what he's complaining about isn't my sig - my news
provider attaches a footer to all messages posted... and if he thinks
I'm changing providers, he's more stupid than I think he is - which is
impossible.
BTW, 1) I wouldn't have known he was blathering again if you hadn't
quoted him - I killfiled him long ago - he's a net.nit and a waste of
time. 2) I figured out the problem... Turns out there are 3 different
packages that include mkisofs - and I installed the wrong one most
recently.
Mike-
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- Posted by P.T. Breuer on February 19th, 2004
Michael W. Cocke <cocke@catherders.com> wrote:
It's not impossible, merely an unexplored area of theoretical physics.
He has amusement value at times - net.nit or net.kook or real.nut, I
don't know which.
That does not hold water as an explanation of anything. Try again.
It the first place, it is unlikely that there are ONLY three packages
that distribute mkisofs, and in the second place none of them is
intrinsically wrong (ask their packager!). You may be describing a
mismatch between your choice of distro and your choice of package,
in which case it would be a nice idea to say so ...
Peter
- Posted by Michael W. Cocke on February 19th, 2004
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:36:26 +0100, ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es (P.T. Breuer)
wrote:
Good point - I wasn't clear enough. Using Redhat 9, I got tangled up
between cdrtools, dvdtools, and the cdrtools that forked from cdrtools
to handle dvds but didn't actually change the name of the package (no
exaggeration! Did they TRY to be confusing?)
The one that actually works to burn DVDs is located at
ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/pub/cdrtools/alpha
Mike-
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- Posted by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz on February 22nd, 2004
In <62a93012ptq59vvrrojivguspu055di34k@4ax.com>, on 02/19/2004
at 07:19 AM, Michael W. Cocke <cocke@catherders.com> said:
No, what's really amusing is that
1. Alan hasn't figured out that, according to Usenet conventions,
you don't have a sig. If there is no sig then it can't exceed 4
lines.
2. Alan believes that the solution to e-mail spam is to spam
everybody whose address is forge in the spam he receives.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
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the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail.
Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do
not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org
- Posted by Ed Murphy on February 25th, 2004
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:09:41 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
Be fair to the smeghead. According to the conceptual understanding
of a rational English-speaker, Michael *does* have a sig, and hence
it ought to have "-- " above it. Of course, that still doesn't
justify the length of Alan's rants.
Again, be fair to the smeghead. He claims that most of his spam is
routed to /dev/null before it gets this far. Of course, that still
doesn't justify doing it in *any* cases, not to mention that all of
Alan's claims involving even partial competence are suspect...
