From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 08:42:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F84216A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:42:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D007043D31 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:42:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20050126084246i92009utoae>; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:42:47 +0000 Message-ID: <41F75805.1010503@nbritton.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 02:42:45 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Poland References: <20050125214508.GA727@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20050125214508.GA727@polands.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME nautilus-cd-burner problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:42:48 -0000 Doug Poland wrote: >My son's a budding Unix enthusiast, but he's no CLI jockey yet. In my >attempt to help him be independent and burn his own data and/or audio >CD's, I came across nautilus-cd-burner. > >It seems simple enough, but it doesn't work. I've got existing ISO >images that I try to burn to CDRW and it chokes. So I try a simple >directory structure and it chokes. I feed it a few wave files, it >chokes. > >I know something about creating optical media. For example, sometimes I >need to run mkisofs, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I need to blank the >media if it's CDRW, I don't for CDR. Maybe I want to burn an audio CD >and therefore need different switches to drive cdrecord. > >So how does one tell nautilus-cd-burner these things? I've searched the >docs and the lists. > > > Donno, It did the same thing to me so I learned to do it the (not so) hard way: from man burncd: EXAMPLES The typical usage for burning a data CD-R: burncd -f /dev/acd0 data file1 fixate