** Reply to note from Tait Palsson <votetaitpalsson@protonmail.com> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:06:58 +0000
line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it just me or is it impossible to burn a .iso to an optical disc?</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have tried with dd, various iso writers on various distributions but these either grey out or do not list the target device, and with multiple pieces of hardware. I am always met with an error that the media is read-only when the disc drive is read and write. I also tried /dev/sr0 and its alias /dev/cdrom but nothing different happened.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">An internet search tells me that special software like wodim, growisofs, or Brasero could be needed. Why and is this just me?</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">If dd did work I imagine that I could use bs= to bring down the write speed and improve accuracy.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sincerely,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tait</span></div><div><br></div><span></span>
An .iso is a complete image of a disc, the same way .img files filled up a floppy drive. Whether dvd or cd must realize the following: DVD R + or - is Read-only as in burn complete image, write one time. DVD RW is Read/Write, needs to be formatted before write, can do multiple times. ISO is Read-only, use a DVD R disc. Read-only means Write Once! The drive could be: cd-r, cd-rw, dvd-r, dvd-rw, will read any of these types. Writing at slow speed a good idea. R e b