Re: CD burning program

[Ernst-Magne Vindal <ernst@vindal.com>]

On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Michael Marsh wrote:

> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 14:55:20 -0400
> From: Michael Marsh <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com>
> To: Andreas Tscharner <andy@vis.ethz.ch>
> Cc: Debian User Mailinglist <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: CD burning program
> Resent-Date: Sun,  2 Apr 2006 13:55:29 -0500 (CDT)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On 4/2/06, Andreas Tscharner <andy@vis.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > I used to use gcombust for bruning my CDs. Now this program is gone from
> > Debian unstable and I wanted to ask which program you use for CD burning.
> >
> > I use WindowMaker as window manager and neither KDE nor GNOME so I
> > prefer one that does not depend on KDE or GNOME libs.
>
> I use cdrecord.  It's a command-line utility, and has very few
> dependencies.  I believe many of the graphical burners use it as a
> back-end.
>
> --
> Michael A. Marsh
> http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
> http://mamarsh.blogspot.com

Yes, cdrecord is what you need. I'm also a Windowmaker user and the 
commandline utility is great. Just apt cdrecord and mkisofs to begin with.

I think you need to install it as suid root or whatever to be able to burn 
as user.

/ernst-magne

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