mkisofs and burning DVDs

[Net Llama!]

On 06/15/2006 06:25 AM, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying to burn the latest Fedora updates to DVD, and so far,
> I've got 3 "coasters". The problem I am having is that the resulting DVD
> always has problems with the ultra long filenames. 
> 
> Here is the command I use to create the ISO image:
> 
> $ mkisofs -v -l -r -max-iso9660-filenames -no-bak -o
> updates.iso /tmp/x86_64
> 
> I mount it loopback and check, and the filenames look OK to me. 
> 
> $ sudo mount -o loop updates.iso /mnt/tempimage
> 
> Then I burn to DVD with this command:
> 
> $ sudo growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=updates.iso
> 
> When I read the resulting DVD in Windows, I get all the filenames in
> uppercase, and some are conflated. 
> 
> I can read the DVD in Linux, but when I try to copy the files over to
> the hard disk, I get "Input/output errors" for some files. I suspect it
> could be because the filenames are too long.
> 
> Could someone send me the proper syntax for the mkisofs and/or the
> growisofs command? 

Sorry, can't help with that, but I always use TkDVD to burn data DVDs.

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