<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Greetings<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This has been an odyssey yet compared to many of my such endeavors in the past this venture has actually been successful.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I can now burn Bluray (25GB in case there is a difference) discs that are NOT coasters!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Background:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Am
running a Debian Jessie (testing) system with only one optical disc
machine, its an earlier model LG, and had never had the need to read
bluray discs and had not had any issues burning cds or dvds generally
using k3b my weapon of choice.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Tried all the settings I could find
to get k3b (part of Debian distribution) to burn bluray discs. Most
times I was met with a resounding error code and nothing would happen.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Next I read the following:<br><br><a href="http://allgood38.io/burn-bluray-data-disks-on-linux-minimize-coasters.html" target="_blank">http://allgood38.io/burn-bluray-data-disks-on-linux-minimize-coasters.html</a><br><br>
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It seemed that I should be able to achieve success but I kept running into road blocks (reading the following)<br><br><br><p>First check which block device the image is attached to:</p>
<div><pre><span>></span> sudo losetup -a
<span>/dev/loop0: [0019]:7 (/mypath/MYBLURAY-DISC.udf)</span>
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<p>Then use the mount command as you normally would. You don't actually need the
<code>-o loop</code> mount option, since it has already been attached to a loop device
with the <code>losetup</code> command.</p>
<div><pre><span>></span> sudo mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
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<p>Now you write the files/folders you want to the mounted directory. The great
thing about this is the fixed size of the image, you won't accidentally make
it too large to be burned to disc.</p><p><br></p><p>I could see the disc name I had set up earlier using this:</p><br><p><br></p><p>By default, <code>mkudffs</code> will name the image "LinuxUDF" on mount, to change this,
add the additional argument:</p>
<pre><span>></span> mkudffs --vid<span>=</span><span>"My Label"</span> MYBLURAY-DISC.udf <br><br><br></pre><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">yet I couldn't find a way to access the disc.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">Tried mounting the disc manually (I have to mount my RAID10 array manually every time I reboot) yet I just couldn't get access.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Got sort of frustrating.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">One suggestion from the responses to my question on the LUGs was to try to use cdrtools.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That was a very interesting peek behind the scenes at the machinations that occur at Linux distributions.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">To make things even more challenging I could not download the tools directly from <a href="http://cdrecord.org" target="_blank">cdrecord.org</a> - - - so I checked at <a href="http://sourceforge.net" target="_blank">sourceforge.net</a> and was able to find the software in question.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Then the author of cdrecord states
that it is necessary to use gmake to install the software giving reasons
which I could understand but did not really know what they meant or
their implications (sorry no programmer here!!).<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It seemed to be that one should return again to using k3b to burn the bluray discs but still no joy!!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Another suggestion from responders from the LUGs was that growisofs was the cli program of choice for burning.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Downloaded the newest version I could find of that and installed it using the dpkg -i and everything seemed OK.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Well - - - how do I use it?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Read the man page - - - it read like sanskrit (I'm western european
background and can fuddle my way through multiple languages but NOT that
one! grin).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Tried finding help files with example - - no luck.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">Still no joy, felt like I was just chasing my own tail and still wasn't able to burn anything to the bluray disc!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Returned to<br><br><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CdDvd/Burning" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CdDvd/Burning</a><br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">but my file at k3b:setup:advanced:set up external programs had a lot more programs listed.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Went back to the FAQ area at <a href="http://cdrecord.org" target="_blank">cdrecord.org</a> and read through it a few more times.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">When I realized that I would have to
change some of the files that k3b was using I got a little concerned.
(In the past I have managed to pooch my system so that I actually had to
do a re-install a real no joy event!!)<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">so reading files (can't find exactly
which ones I was looking at - - - sorry) I determined that the files in
these three areas were now deprecated by my installing the files from
cdrecord.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The files in question:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">/usr/bin/wodim<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">/usr/bin/genisoimage<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">/usr/bin/readom<br><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">so then I did the following (I wanted a way back if I were headed down the wrong alley!!) :<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">made new directories, adding the suffix .old to each and then moved the files using mv each to its respective container.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br># mkdir wodim.old<br># mkdir genisoimage.old readom.old<br># mv /usr/bin/wodim /usr/bin/wodim.old<br># mv /usr/bin/genisoimage /usr/bin/genisoimage.old<br># mv /usr/bin/readom /usr/bin/readom.old<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">now I went to k3b and the files in question were not visible.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Next I needed to go into the k3b setup.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
k3bsetup:advanced:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">you must have checked both burnfree and show advanced GUI elements<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">it
is also important when you now go to burn your selected files that you
so to the area that has 4 tabs (writing, image, filesystem, misc) there
go to the misc tab where you will find the Multi session mode where
again you must choose No multisession (gave error message when auto was
chosen).<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I also chose the speed option x2 on the main page and the verify check box on the writing tab (my habit).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">At this point I was able to burn a bluray disc!!!<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I checked the disc after burning and
was able to access a few files (perhaps I should have checked more but
had a second one to do and other things that must need doing today as
well so a few examples would have to suffice!).<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Quest achieved!!</div></div>