[TriLUG] DVD problem

David A. Cafaro dac at cafaro.net
Sat Mar 8 10:26:25 EST 2003


Just curious but are these "linux format" DVD's in reference to the
DVD's that come with Linux Format Magazine, and not persay some special
linux format disk type?  Just wondering.

-David

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 17:21, Jeff Jackowski wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Frank Hale wrote:
> 
> >> I have installed redhat 8.0 and can't read dvd's. 
> >> Any idea. 
> >> 
> >> I have a dvdrw and some linux format disks.  I can
> >> read the cd's fine but can't recognize the linux
> >> format dvd.
> >
> >Shouldn't the format be UDF? I could be wrong though.
> 
> I've been able to mount DVD's with both ISO9660 and UDF with kernels 2.4.9
> and later (that is same disk, different filesystem driver). But maybe
> neither filesystem constitutes this "linux format"?  Could something like
> ext2 have been used? Or maybe the drive doesn't like the DVD-RW in 
> question?
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Jackowski
>         http://ro.com/~jeffj/
> 
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