Burning CDs

• Writing files and directories to a CD using Nautilus
• Writing a downloaded CD Image
• Writing a directory to a CD -command line version
• Using xcdroast to write CDs
• Where to get more information

Writing files and directories to a CD using Nautilus

Bring up a Nautilus window via either clicking the right mouse button on the screen background and then selecting the New Window menu item or typing nautilus in a terminal window. Then click: Go-->CD Creator. You can then drag and drop files and directories into this window. When you're ready to burn the CD, click Write to CD:

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cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=8 fs=24m -data -pad CD_IMAGE

mkisofs -V MY_CD_LABEL -R -o CD_IMAGE burn_dir
cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=8 fs=24m -data -pad CD_IMAGE
eject /dev/scd0

The above mkisofs command reads in all files and directories under the directory burn_dir and creates one file, CD_IMAGE, in a format used by CD-ROMs. The cdrecord command then writes/burns the image to the CD-ROM.

The eject command is for those of us too lazy to push the CD-ROM eject button.

• Install xcdroast If it isn't already installed.

• You can start xcdroast by typing: xcdroast
  The first time you run xcdroast you will probably see this pop-up:
  
• Click on OK on the popup and then click Setup on the main page.
• In the Device-Scan tab area, you might want to check the CD Settings and see if they match the CD-RW you have.
• Click on the HD Settings tab. Near the bottom, to the right of Path: you type the name of a directory that is on a filesystem that has at least 700 megabytes free (the maximum size of a CD-ROM). Then click Add.
• Click on Save configuration along the left and OK on the popup.
• Click on OK along the left.
• Click on Create CD
• Click on Master Tracks
• Under the File/Directory view, select a directory you want to write to the CD and then click Add, and continue adding directories until you have added all directories you want written to the CD-ROM.
• Click on Update session view near the bottom.
• Click Create Session/Image which is a a tab along the top (on the right side)
• Click Calculate size under the Create session on hard disk
  
• Click Master to image file at the bottom of the Create session on hard disk area. This can take a while as it creates an image of what will be written to the CD.
• Click Write Tracks along the left column
• Click the Layout track tab along the middle-top area.
• In the Image Information area either click All or click on images you want, followed by Add
• Click Accept Track Layout at the bottom of the window.
• Make sure the Write tracks tab (just to the left of the Layout tracks tab) is selected.
  Then click Write tracks at the bottom of the window.

• The Official Red Hat Linux Guide, Chapter 4. Diskettes and CD-ROMs, CD-Rs and CD-RWs
• CD-Writing HOWTO

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