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Operating Systems AIX Using mkdvd to create bootable mksysb on dvd reports success but nothing on dvd? Post 302966849 by bakunin on Wednesday 17th of February 2016 08:45:29 AM

02-17-2016

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Originally Posted by c3rb3rus

Anyone have any ideas as to what the issue could be?

At first glance everything looks OK, so the answer will mean debugging:

- You did do this as user root, yes?

- The FSs/filespaces you used (/usr1/AIXADMIN/mkcd/cd_fs, ...) are large file enabled?

- The filesize ulimit is set to unlimited for this session/this user?

- Have you checked the temporary locations the command produces? What is in there? Are any of these places not what they seem to be (like being symlinked to somewhere else, etc.)?

- Have you tested your equipment to work properly (e.g. trying to burn something on the drive in question)?

- at last: have you checked the logs, especially the mentioned /var/adm/ras/mkcd.log?

Finally, this is probably not the source of your problem, but: to create ISO images: wouldn't it be easier to first burn the CD/DVD, then use

Code:

# dd if=/dev/cd0 of=/some/file.iso

To create the ISO image where you want to have it?

I hope this helps

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nautilus-cd-burner

nautilus-cd-burner(1)						   User Commands					     nautilus-cd-burner(1)

NAME

       nautilus-cd-burner - Nautilus CD-writing utility

SYNOPSIS

       nautilus-cd-burner [--source-cue=string] [--source-device=string] [--source-iso=string] [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       nautilus-cd-burner provides a quick, convenient, drag-and-drop interface to write to CD-ROMs directly from the Nautilus file manager.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       ---source-cue=string    Use CUE/TOC file as source instead of "burn:///".

       ---source-device=string Use CD/DVD device as source instead of "burn:///".

       ---source-iso=string    Use ISO image as source instead of "burn:///".

       gnome-std-options       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching Nautilus CD-Writing Utility

       example% nautilus-cd-burner

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/nautilus-cd-burner     Executable for Nautilus CD-writing utility

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-cd-burner	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       nautilus(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Niall Power, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    7 Sep 2004						     nautilus-cd-burner(1)