Entering the Ring of Fire: Burning CDs
Back in the 1980s, when vinyl melted away under the invasion of CDs, building the factories to create the CDs cost megabucks; back then, it took a huge effort to make a CD. Now, for roughly the $100 it costs to purchase a CD burner (to burn means to record to CD), you can build your own, personal factory. Amazing!RememberIf you don’t have a CD burner (or writer), this section doesn’t do you a bit of good. Sorry.A one-time recordable CD is referred to as a CD-R; a rewritable CD is a CD-RW. CD burners look like regular read-only drives and are connected with either an IDE or SCSI interface.Using the Nautilus Burn:/// Utility
Nautilus provides an alternative CD-burning utility. Just insert a CD-R or CD-RW into a CDR drive and Nautilus does the rest. These steps describe how to use the system:
Log in as any user and insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD writer drive.
Double-click your home directory icon, in the upper-left corner of your desktop.
A Nautilus window opens, showing the contents of your home directory.
Click and hold any file or directory and drag it to the burn:/// window.
All the files and directories are displayed in the burn:/// window; those files and directories aren’t really copied, but instead are linked to the burn:/// window.
Click any and all of the files and directories in order to highlight them.
Selecting a file or directory enables it to be written to CD.
Click the Write to CD button and you’re off to the races.
After a little thought, the Writing CD dialog box opens.
When the CD write is finished, the disc is ejected by default.
Click the Close button when you’re finished.
Close the CD tray by pushing it back into the drive.
A Nautilus window opens, showing the contents of the disc you just finished writing.