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[mcalex]

Hi all

I'm having trouble with saving the session to the live-dvd. I followed all the instructions, and have created a multi-session dvd with pburn in PL. When I shut down, puppy asks if I want to save and so I tab to the [Save to CD] button and hit <enter>. The screen goes black and then i get a message:
'If stuck here long time ensure cd tray is closed and hit enter' (or similar).

This line appears twice, then there's a pause (short time only ), then the DVD tray ejects and I get a message:
'Have saved session to live-DVD
(unless it has not, which is an error)'

Talk about an each-way bet . This box tells me to hit enter to close the tray (after optionally removing the media).

When I reboot with that DVD, I have to go through the startup stuff (identifying the mouse type, keyboard and Xorg/Xvesa setup options) before I'm taken to the normal startup screen with the 'Welcome! Click here for getting-started information' clicky , where all the options that I configured in the previous session have reverted back to defaults.

I'm pretty sure I've followed the instructions right. When I look at the DVD in windows (right click, properties, InCD tab - from the DVD item in the folder pane in windows explorer) it says it is a DVD-R Sequential Recording; as opposed to the DVD i burned from windows to start the process which is just a DVD-R in the same tab.

2 questions. 1) how do i find out what is going on with the session saving? is there a log file somewhere, or can I set some options to see output similar to the way pburn shows what is happening when it is burning a DVD?
2) can i save the session, manually, before shutting down, so I can check the DVD has had further info saved without having to go through all the startup configuration fun?

tia,

mcalex

<edit>
oh.
have just found the burner specs.
writing type:
DVD+R: Incremental Write (Multi Session Support)
DVD-R: Disc at Once, Incremental Recording (Multi-Border Support)

Looks like I gotta get me some DVD+R discs

a gotcha if anyone else has the same burner.

oh well, the success/error message was right, i suppose

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AMD Athlon XP 1700+ 1.48 GHz
256 MB Ram
USB Mouse, 'purple-plug' keyboard
Optorite DD1601 DVD Burner
Using Puppy 4.2.1

[scabz]

yeah i have had this same problem also never thought to use dvd+r.
please post back results.

[Flash]

I doubt that the problem is caused by your DVD burner. More likely the burning program.

Use a DVD+RW and burn the Puppy iso to it with Menu -> Multimedia -> Burniso2cd in whatever version of Puppy you've been able to get to boot so far. Then boot the newly-burned DVD+RW, configure it, and shut down choosing to save to the DVD. That's how I create a multisession DVD and it's never failed me. Let us know what happens next. You can use a DVD+R, -R or -RW but +RW works as well as any, and Burniso2cd will burn to a used DVD+RW without having to blank the disk first. You can even try different Puppy isos out by burning them to the multisession Puppy DVD+RW you just booted from, and creating a new multisession Puppy DVD with the newly-burned DVD..

[scabz]

yeah i have never used a dvd rw but have tried a dvd-r and it has never worked for me, and i always use Burniso2cd. i have never tired pburn for iso's.
I will try dvd-rw thanks.

[mcalex]

Hi Flash