burning CD-R's

[Erik Bågfors]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:45:23 -0500, Noah Dain <noahdain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:26:36 +0100, Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:04:36 -0500, Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> wrote:
> > > Erik Bågfors wrote:
> > >
> > > >>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?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > By default, only root has permission to write to the CD drive, but you
> > > can override this by making cdrecord SUID=root
> >
> > ls -Ll /dev/cdrom
> > brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom      3,   0 2004-12-04 23:07 /dev/cdrom
> >
> > By default the group "cdrom" har permissions to write to the CD drive.
> >  Put yourself in that group (should be default) and you're set.
> >
> > /Erik - answers old mails...
> >
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> 
> if you have the iso file, just right click on my-file.iso -> write to disk
> 
> sounds like maybe you got into the 'make cd' part of nautilus, which
> will ask what you want to do with the produced .iso file.
> 
> unless i'm missing something here... o_O


I think you are confused.. you are right of course, but that's not
what we are talking about here :)

/Erik