Burn CD to be used on Red Hat 5.3

Question

I have never burned a DVD to be used on a Linux box before. If I am burning a CD using a Windows program (not built-in burning), is there anything special I need to be aware of to make sure the DVD will be able to be read on Linux?

Answer 1

Linux is aware of pretty much all formats you're likely to write. Most likely if it's a data CD / DVD you'll burn an ISO9660 format disk with the Joilet extensions. You might experience problems if you have any filenames over 64 characters long, but that's reasonably unlikely (in many cases filenames up to 103 characters work OK).

Answer 2

If you use default settings and avoid things like overburning etc., then you should have no problems. I used my CDs burned in Windows in various programs like Nero 5.5, Ashampoo burning studio free, Infrarecorder and some newer Nero Express in various linux distributions and never had problems.