CD/DVD Burners.

[Alfred]

Hi:
>>>What are you using to copy the DVD?

I tried to use all the available programs to copy. Brasero, CD/DVD Gnome
Baker, k3b, X-CD Roast. In windows 98 Nero, in Windows 2000 Nero. None
of these programs would work. Perhaps for 7 years I've been playing with
Linux. I started with Mandrake 8.1, had no idea what I was doing. I was
using Windows almost all the time. Then the Linux Cafe here gave me one
day Ubuntu 4.10, and I went with that, until the present day. Some
versions of Ubuntu I got from High Speed Downloading, from someone in
town, that would charge $5.00 for a DVD, with the ISO. The Copy Programs
worked then. Other times the versions came from Flipside, and then
things didn't work. 

At times I tried to learn the Shell, but I'm both Rusty, and a New at
it. I have several Linux books that seem like they are 1/4 century old,
and one recent one made for Ubuntu.  I'm doing many other things too,
and quite often can't find the time to, continue with things. You would
probably know, and could tell what Copy Protection if any there is. My
DVD Burner is a few years old now. Lately it does not always mount a
disk. In the good old days you could wash it in something like freon,
and all the dust build up in it would get removed and then it would be
like Brand New. Haven't found anything yet that could do the same job,
and not harm the environment, so it's perhaps get a new one. They used
to have those Piezio Electric Washing Trays that would even get the old
grease out of the things. I use Linux now 99.9% of the time. 

>>>If you can dd from the DVD to disk to get an ISO file, then the
problem
is elsewhere.

I'll look up on how to do this and give it a try. I still keep a Linux Diary, but haven't done dd yet.

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: mcr at simtone.net
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: CD/DVD Burners.
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:45:43 -0400

What are you using to copy the DVD?

If you can dd from the DVD to disk to get an ISO file, then the problem
is elsewhere.

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