burning CD-R's

[Erik Bågfors]

> 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

Why are you running as root?

/Erik