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zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6608 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

...working as expected here.
Burning - blanking - burning again
TDK CD-RW

Can you point me to a disc not getting blanked by pBurn?

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6608 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Argolance
Just checking - do you run cdrkit or cdrtools?

Argolance · Posted: Wed 14 Dec 2016, 11:53 Post subject:

Hello Zigbert,
Thanks for your reply! Very Happy

Argolance · Posted: Wed 14 Dec 2016, 13:34 Post subject:

I downloaded "cdrtools"

from here, built a pet then installed it and now, all is working fine (Puppy Precise 5.7.1). Very Happy

Thanks.

Chili Dog · Joined: 20 Dec 2011 Posts: 163

Hey sorry about the delay.

Using Pburn to overwrite a dvd fails due to lack of ram, AND deletes the iso you were trying to burn.

To be clear, it doesn't do that when you burn a fresh DVD iso, only when it has to overwrite one.

Other than that, love the app.

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6608 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

wert · Joined: 31 Mar 2015 Posts: 256 Location: USA

Hi! it seems pburn cannot burn files that are 4Gb. I'm trying to do that but it says this:

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6608 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

wert
You are using cdrkit as burning backend. You are probably running an old puppy or one of BarryK's builds. He is for some reason happy with cdrkit. cdrtools-3 is the recommended backend, and the only supported backend in pBurn 4.

If you get the same problems with a recent cdrtools / pBurn, please let me know... Puppy Slacko 6.3.2 includes all you need.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 30 Mar 2017, 10:24 Post subject:

Here is my recollection of how burning works with very large files. The real culprit is growisofs. Depending on the version, it may be hard-coded to use either mkisofs or genisoimage to build an on-the-fly image of the data.

But genisoimage from cdr-kit fails with large files. So you need a version of growisofs that uses cdr-tools.

Read here and here. The growisofs_slacko56-7.1.pet has been confirmed to work, provided that it is matched with genuine cdr-tools.

wert · Joined: 31 Mar 2015 Posts: 256 Location: USA

wert · Joined: 31 Mar 2015 Posts: 256 Location: USA

wert · Joined: 31 Mar 2015 Posts: 256 Location: USA

If I install those and use to burn my 4Gb files, will the resource usage remain the same as when burning files that are less than 4Gb with pburn version 3 or will my system be clogged? I'm currently using Nero 4 linux but cannot multitask while it's burning my 4Gb files since my system gets really slow.
Also why should I install cdrtools if it isn't included in the ubuntu release that my puppy is based on due to license issues? Isn't that breaking the laws?
Thanks

I wonder why out of the box support for burning 4Gb+ files isn't included in ubuntu 14. Don't most users have huge files to backup to optical media like me or what?

Permanent_Wheelie · Joined: 10 May 2017 Posts: 8

When I open Pburn and click "Copy/shrink video DVD," it says "This is a reminder that your temporary storage space is less than 9gb..." even though there is plenty of unused space on the USB key from which I am running Puppy.

Pburn is saying that I have only about 2gb available storage space in the My Documents directory where it wants to store the file it's going to create from my DVD. Should I choose a different directory or something?

(Running Tahrpup 6.0 on a 16gb USB drive that is all ext2 format, with over 14gb space available).

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 12980 Location: S.C. USA

Try /mnt/home as the place to do this in.

That is outside of the save.

Also, if you are using Tahrpup 6.0, you need to update it.
That was a buggy version of Tahrpup.

Permanent_Wheelie · Joined: 10 May 2017 Posts: 8