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March 30, 2006

It's exactly a week since I downloaded the Fedora Core 5 DVD image. DIdn't get a chance to burn a DVD with cause because of my trip to Thailand. Finally today i attempted it but it didn't meet with much success.

I have long believed that CD/DVD writing is the achilles heel of linux. K3B, what seems to be the most popular is just the best out of a bad lot. With my installation it always insists on closing any DVD it writes to. Because of that I have dozens of DVDs with less than 1GB of data on them.

Burning an image with K3B seems to be imposible. It produces this error

Google turns up exactly 0 results. As for Xcdroast or nautilus-cd-burner you cannot come up with a worse UI even with a lot of effort and intent to create a bad UI. xdroast also files with an error.

The last resort is to use the command line cdrecord. After a couple of trial and error attempts I did manage to figure out how to use it by leaving out the device name.

Now to back up my hard drive and try to upgrade to FC5.