Can't burn CDs from Nautilus.

[David M. Carney]

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 22:49:55 +0000, Neil Woolford
<neil at neilwoolford.co.uk> wrote:
> I've just tried for the first time to burn a CD on my Ubuntu system.
> 
> I can select files and open up the CD burner in Nautilus, but I can only
> write to a file image;  there is no physical drive available in the
> dropdown on the 'Write to disc' panel.
> 
> The drive used to write CDs in the system I took it out of, so I'm
> confident it *is* a writer :)
> 
> I did think I'd found the problem when I looked in /etc/fstab and found the
> CD drive was set up as ro, but changing this to rw didn't help,
> even after a reboot.
> 
> So, in a nutshell;  I have a CD writer fitted to my system, but the system
> thinks it is only a player.  How do I change this?
> 
> Neil
> 
> PS  The drive *reads* data and audio CDs without any problems...
> 
> 
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Maybe this will help. This is what my /etc/fstab line looks like for
my DVD writer. I think it would be the same for a CD writer.

/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0

Do you have the package "nautilus-cd-burner" installed?

David

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