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K0tuk

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Registered: 2009-04-06

Posts: 125

burning with nerocmd

Hi!

I`m wondering, if anyone is using Nero here?

Anyway, i`m trying to burn a dvd with nerocmd, and after reading --help for it i`ve come to the point where i have to specify my dvd drive.

nerocmd --list-drives

gives me this:

HA ID Device                          Underrun Protection     Host Adapter Name
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 0  0 Optiarc  BD ROM BC-5500A        Supported               ata_piix        
-1  0 Image Recorder                  None                    Virtual Device

So i don`t really get, what exactly should i specify in the

--drive=

parameter...

Any ideas?

arkham

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2008-10-26

Posts: 516

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Re: burning with nerocmd

I've never used nero on linux, I've always used growisofs to burn dvds.
From man growisofs

EXAMPLES
To master and burn an ISO9660 volume with Joliet and Rock-Ridge extensions on a DVD or Blu-ray Disc:

            growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files

To append more data to same media:

            growisofs -M /dev/dvd -R -J /more/files

Make sure to use the same options for both initial burning and when appending data.

To finalize the multisession DVD maintaining maximum compatibility:

            growisofs -M /dev/dvd=/dev/zero

To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD:

            growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso

where image.iso represents an arbitrary object in the filesystem, such as file, named pipe or device entry. Nothing is growing here and command  name  is  not intuitive in this context.

Probably you should use /dev/sr0 instead of /dev/dvd

Last edited by arkham (2009-06-28 19:40:03)

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davidlondonuk

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Registered: 2009-06-24

Posts: 49

Re: burning with nerocmd

Hi,

I have used nero. Nero Linux should have a menu entry in multimedia. When it starts it should find your drives automatically- normally /dev/sr0 or if you have a usb dvd burner as well /dev/sr1. I found it to be very straight forward and there is no need to call nerocmd from a terminal.

If you don't have a desktop menu entry check /usr/share/applications there should be a nerolinux.desktop entry. The command in the desktop file is 'nero %F'.