On Aug 16 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > >I recently discovered one excellent program already packaged for Debian, > >called dvdisaster. I would recommend it to anybody interested in seeing > >how (un)reliable your CDs/DVDs are. (...) > > Just what the doctor ordered!
Indeed, dvdisaster is quite amazing at doing its job. I found some hard to read CDs among some of what I considered "safe" (and I tried more than one drive, just to make sure). > The Debian package is "only" unstable so I dnldd. the tarball for Sarge > and installed per instructions w/o a hitch. Indeed. I took the package from incoming.debian.org when it was still not in unstable, but I've been running etch (testing). I do think that this is one of the programs that would merit a backport, if we had to choose packages. Regards, -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
