CD burning problem

[David Curry]

THUFIR HAWAT wrote:

>On 4/19/05, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 09:19 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
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>>how can a cd-r/w be reformated from Gnome, or a session 
>>added to a cd-r, from the GUI?  There nothing for burning CD's 
>>under  "Sounds & Video" in Gnome, just CD Player, Sound 
>>Recorder, and Volume Control.
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>>K3b is an application for that on the distribution CD.  Install from
>>there or install using yum.  Either way works.
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>That's installing software which Gnome, more specifically Nautilus,
>already provides.  Can't the "CD/DVD Creator" do the same thing?
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>thanks,
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>Thufir
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Thufir,  thank you for persistence in your question about nautilus.  It 
has prompted me to further explore CD burning with Gnome applications 
and I will share those findings with you here.

I  run FC2 so your mileage may vary if you are running another fedora 
release.  In FC2, I find that I can not use nautilus to mount a blank 
cd.  I assume you are having the same or a very similar experience.   
Try the following as an alternative.

1. Using nautilus, select some files you want copied to a CD.  
2. Extend the nautilus "Edit" menu and select copy.
3.  Extend the nautilus "Places" menu and select "CD Creator."
4.  Paste the files selected in (2) above into the CD Creator window.
5.  Place a blank CD in a CD-RW or CD-R drive.
6.  Extend the CD Creator "Files" menu and select burn CD.

I have yet to explore other tasks such as blanking CDs or trying to 
create an iso file for burning to CD, but from my limited experience 
thus far it appears that one may need to use cdrecord and terminal 
command line instructions to create iso files before burning them to a CD.

FWIW