Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition

Creating CDs and DVDs with Fedora's Graphical Clients

Creating CDs and DVDs with Fedora's Graphical Clients

Although adequate for quick burns and use in shell scripting, the command-line technique for burning CDs and DVDs is an awkward choice for many people until they become proficient at it and learn all the arcane commands. Fortunately, Fedora provides several graphical clients.

With Fedora, enhanced functionality has been included in the default file browser Nautilus. Under the Places menu item is a CD/DVD Creator selection. To use it, insert a blank CD or DVD into your CD-R/DVD-R drive. You must have two Nautilus windows open: one that shows the files you want to save to the CD, and a second one open to the CD/DVD Creator Folder (accessed in Nautilus by the Places menu, CD/DVD Creator) location. Click on the Write to Disc button as shown in Figure 7.11 to bring up the Write dialog; at the next dialog box, choose the format to which you want to write the disc. Nautilus CD/DVD Creator supports writing to a disc image file, commonly known as ISO. You can also give your new disc a label and tell Nautilus at what speed you want to write the disc. Finally, click the Write button to start the burning process — it is that simple!

FIGURE 7.11 Creating a CD or DVD using the Nautilus browser is made easy with the drag- and-drop features it provides.

If you require a bit more flexibility than just dragging and dropping files into a CD folder, then you should consider GnomeBaker, which enables you to burn Data CDs and DVDs, and also master Audio CDs. It's not installed by default, so make sure you use the command

# yum install gnomebaker

to retrieve and install the application.

GnomeBaker itself is very easy to use, and can be found under the Applications, Sound and Video menu. When you start GnomeBaker, you are immediately prompted to choose what it is you want to create, as shown in Figure 7.12.

FIGURE 7.12 GnomeBaker offers a task-based approach to burning optical media.

After you've chosen what you want to create, you can then navigate to the files you want to burn in the top half of the GnomeBaker window and drag them to the bottom project area. In Figure 7.13, I am backing up an audio CD that was ripped to my hard drive by Sound Juicer.

FIGURE 7.13 Use GnomeBaker to back up your CD or photo collection.

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