burning CD-R's

[Noah Dain]

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

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Noah Dain
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