Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

[Michael Kjorling <michael@kjorling.com>]

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On 2005-10-26 09:34 -0500, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to
> create a dvd data image.  growisofs --help give very little to work
> with but the reference to mkisofs lead me to man mkisofs where I find
> out how to make a video dvd but still not clear what cmdline is
> required for data dvd.

There is nothing special about a DVD ISO. Just make an ISO
9660-compatible image with whatever data you want (in fact, neither a
DVD nor CD needs to contain a ISO 9660 file system at all). I usually
do something very similar to:

mkisofs -o dvdimage.iso -J -r datadir/

Then you can burn this "pre-mastered" image using (see growisofs man
page):

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

This should be roughly equivalent to:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -J -r datadir/

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