Hello All,

I wanted to copy a Fedora 8 DVD for a friend. I tried the default Brasero in Etch-Xfce but it would not even proceed further than the window where Read and Write drives are chosen. So gnomebaker was used. It read the master DVD and created the image but on writing the image back to a blank DVD, it completed the process halfway but with no errors. However the DVD is only half burned as can also be observed physically. Then my all time favorite K3B was installed but it too recorded halfway and said ok.

What I observed in gnomebaker was that it uses the 'dd' command to write the DVD which I feel is outdated. I did not check the same in K3B as I did not expect it to do the same. All necessary packages like dvdrw+tools, and many more are installed in my system. I lost 2 blank DVDs. Finally for the third and last one in stock, Nero was used in the other operating system and that recorded properly.

What could be possibly happening? I recollect gnomebaker showing messages like...

Writing image using dd if=... of=..... Flushing Cache. Updating RVM (?)

Google does not yield much information about this problem.