DVD burning in Warty

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:48:55AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:57:40PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> 
> > John wrote:
> > >I've just won a battle to install a DVD burner on Woody; it was far 
> > >too much trouble,
> > 
> > We can do better... how's the dvd burner story on Warty, and can we 
> > improve it with tweaks before release? It's too late for drastic changes 
> > on that front for Warty, but we can add them to the Hoary plan.
> 
> Today I installed Warty from scratch.  I plugged in my USB DVD writer, and
> burned a DVD with growisofs.  There was nothing to it whatsoever.
> 
> What you _can't_ do is burn a DVD from Nautilus as you can a CD. :-/

I'm a liar.  I hadn't actually tried it, but it seems to support this just
fine.  Insert blank/rewritable DVD, right-click on ISO, Write to Disc.
Works perfectly out of the box on Warty.  Excellent!

The only gotcha (but it's a big one) is that with rewritables, if the disc
already contains a filesystem, it will be automounted on insert, and must be
unmounted before writing.  Currently, this means either using the command
line, or going into Computer->Disks, right-click, Unmount volume, neither of
which is discoverable.  :-/

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 - mdz