== Burning DVD's in Linux ==

DVD burning should work with most DVD-burners available and most 
common, modern distros. 

Success with Gigabyte technology GO-W0404A DVD+-R/RW (160 EUR 2003-12-11). 

=== Installation ===

Connected DVD+-R/RW to computer as IDE secondary slave. 

Installed k3b, updated dvd+rw-tools (growisofs>=5.10).

Started k3b as root, blanked dvd+rw, chose some directories 
and burned. It worked, dvd was burned successfully. My dvd burner could also 
read the dvd. 

=== Caveats ===

I had to find a newer dvd+rw-tools rpm from rpmfind.net before k3b agreed
to burn the dvd. Probably related to fedora.us version of k3b. 

My older dvd read-only drive did not recognize the dvd+rw, and 
I have read that it is very common. Probably related to dvd+rw in general. 

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
$ rpm -q dvd+rw-tools k3b kernel cdrecord mkisofs
dvd+rw-tools-5.13.4.7.4-2.9
k3b-0.10.2-0.fdr.2.rh90
kernel-2.4.20-20.9
cdrecord-2.0-11.9.1
mkisofs-2.0-11.9.1

http://k3b.sourceforge.net/
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/dvd+rw-tools-5.13.4.7.4-2.9.i386.rpm

Tero Karvinen 
http://iki.fi/karvinen