burning CD-R's

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:09:43PM +0100, René L. Reingard wrote:
> 
> hello
> 
> i downloaded the Live-CD of Hoary (hoary-live-i386.iso)
> tried to burn it in Nautilus to an empty CD-R.
> the CD-Drive in my laptop is a CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive (HAL talks about: QSI  
> CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-081).
> after pushing "burn CD" another window comes up with the question where to  
> save that file. options are: putting the iso-File to the desktop, personal  
> folder or the filesystem. and that's all !! looks so silly :-(
> 
> the drive got autodetected by Ubuntu Warty as CD-ROM1 (the icon) and the  
> line for it in /etc/fstab looks as follows:
> 
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> 
> if i push on the icon of the CD-Drive, while a CD-R is inside, the error  
> message is:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many  
> mounted file systems
> 
> 
> i once also tried to change "ro" to "rw", but then the icon changes  
> automatically to a harddrive's icon and the error is:
> 
> mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many  
> mounted file systems
> 
> 
> NOW, how to deal with that friends? what to change, what to set  
> differently?
> 

I haven't tried burning a CD with Nautilus, but you should not try to
mount the CD-R (you cannot because there is no file type before you do
the burning).  I have used K3b and graveman (both of which are nice),
but I keep going back to the command line when burning .iso files (which
works for me every time):

sudo cdrecord -pad -v -eject -driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/cdrom  <filename.iso>

Or, in script form:

$cat ~/bin/makecd.sh

#!/bin/bash
sudo cdrecord -pad -v -eject -driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/cdrom $1