I've never had a problem burning ISO's on Windows, but this time I had to transfer the ISO's to another linux machine with a burner and use the cdrecord instructions w/ padding. I used to use Nero, now I use Sonic's Record Now which I thought was the problem. -- Matt Shields http://masnetworks.biz http://sexydates4u.com http://shieldslinux.com http://shieldsproductions.com On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:15:32 -0600, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 15:37 +0100, Maciej ?enczykowski wrote: > > > Option (a) can be performed immediately by just adding a single line > > (dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=150 >> file.iso) to the scripts used to > > create the iso/dvd images right after the anaconda implantation. > > > > But this is a problem with cdrecord and not with iso generation. How > does this solution impact people who do not use cdrecord to make ISOs. > There are many people who burn the ISOs with other programs (growfs, > nero, roxio ezcd, and a dozen other windows or mac ISO recording > programs.) > > I'm not sure that we should put the extra items on the end of the file > if it will adversely impact the other burning programs. > > Any comments... > > > Option (b) is nice and should probably be done anyway (making -pad > > cdrecord option the default) but will take ages to spread and in the > > meantime cd burning problems will continue to plague us. > > > > This option only impacts the user that uses cdrecord and doesn't impact > other burning software. > > > Option (c) is also nice and should possibly be done, once we figure out > > how to determine how much padding the file contains (or just assume it's > > always 300KB since that's how much mkisofs adds?) > > > > Still, option (a) is best for now at least and would solve this problem > > once and for all. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > >