[CentOS] problems with burning i386 centos 6 dvd

[Earl]

On Monday, July 11, 2011 04:17:18 PM Gary Gatling wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Thanks a lot for the CentOS 6 distro. I am having trouble burning the i386
> dvds. I tried on a RHEL 6 deskop and also a CentOS 5 laptop. The command I
> am running on both systems is this:
> 
> growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=4 -Z
> /dev/sr0=/home/gsgatlin/CentOS-6.0-i386-bin-DVD/CentOS-6.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso
> 
> The error I am seeing is:
> :-( /dev/sr0: 2295104 blocks are free, 2297586 to be written!
> 
> (Yes it puts a sad face on the command line)
> 
> The DVD says DVD +R on it if that matters.
> 
> I was able to burn the 64 bit dvd's ok with similar commands. (both #1
> and #2)
> 
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks for any ideas.
> 
> Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems
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Hi Gary,

From the release notes for CentOS 6.0:

The i386 DVD is just a bit too large to fit on normal single layer DVD+R 
media. It can be burnt succesfully on DVD-R. 

So if you have a DVD-R around.. try it!

earl