On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 03:28:25PM -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: > I appreciate your taking the time to test some of it out and teach me > a few things. My pleasure. Of course you use all advice from this mailing list at your own risk. ;-) > If using the apt commands won't screw up my system I'd definitly give > them a try, but I'm still leary of it due to my inexperience with > debian and what I read when I first installed it. man apt-cache: DESCRIPTION apt-cache performs a variety of operations on APT's package cache. apt-cache does not manipulate the state of the system but does provide operations to search and generate interesting output from the package metadata. So you should be safe. You get things like this: $ apt-cache search dvd write bootcd - run your system from cd without need for disks bootcd-dvdplus - bootcd extension to use DVD+ media bootcd-hppa - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on parisc/hppa bootcd-i386 - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on i386. bootcd-ia64 - bootcd extension to create images that can boot on ia64 k3b - A sophisticated KDE cd burning application Only k3b is interesting here. `apt-cache show k3b' gives some info on k3b, though you already know what it is. Vary the search terms to your liking. `apt-cache search dvd' gives among others: dvd+rw-tools - DVD+-RW/R tools dvdauthor - create DVD-Video file system dvdbackup - Tool to rip DVD's from the command line These may all be interesting. At least you should probably use a tool from dvd+rw-tools instead of cdrecord. But my dvd knowledge is limited. > From what you've said, it appears my dd of the iso worked. It was a > bit over 700 mb in size. But, when I tried to use K3b to copy the > disk, it said the disk was too large (over 6 or 7 gb), and my > recordable disks were too small (4.something gb). This makes me think > dd really didn't work, that the iso wasn't complete? That would > explain why when I burned a dvd from the iso tha tit wouldn't play. Are you sure the size of the file isn't 7000 mb? Just checking the obvious. ;-) Mistakes are easy to make. Type `ls -sh <name of image file>' to be sure. If it really is 7 GB then a recordable of 4.x GB will not quite work. > You say the cause of this is not having enough room on the partition. > Perhaps I'm not understanding how partitions in linux work? When I > installed Debian I had it put everything in a single partition (/), it > said this was for newbies (I did it because it sounded easier hehe). > Wouldn't that mean that the different directories (/home, /usr, /etc, > etc) could get as big as they want, until the (/) partition hits > 250gb? Correct. > Or, even though everything is technically in one partition, is > there some kind of virtual limit placed on the directories? The place > I had dd save the iso was my home directory. If you really just have one partition of 250 GB then you should have plenty of free space. Try `df -h' to make sure. On my system: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb2 2,4G 121M 2,3G 6% / tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hdb1 9,1M 5,6M 3,1M 65% /boot /dev/hdb5 2,8G 897M 2,0G 32% /var /dev/hdb6 2,8G 2,2G 707M 76% /usr /dev/hdb7 93M 4,1M 84M 5% /tmp /dev/hdb8 1,1G 592M 497M 55% /home /dev/hdc2 19G 14G 5,7G 70% /music /dev/hdc3 48G 40G 8,1G 84% /backup Your output is probably very different, which is fine. If it is something like the following, without a mention of something mounted on /home and the amount mentioned under `Avail' is let's say more than 10G then free space isn't the problem. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 250G ...G ...G ..% / -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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