[dundee] cdrecord/gutsy

[James Le Cuirot]

That may be it though it's worth noting that burning as root hasn't
been necessary for a little while now. In fact, I think you're more
likely to encounter problems if you do that now. There was some big
shake up with that stuff in the kernel about three years ago.

James


On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:12:47 +0000
Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net> wrote:
> 
> To refer to the file on the desktop without actually having that as
> the current directory: add a ~/Desktop/ to the front of the file
> name. I have only vague memories of using cdrecord directly but they
> do include being root for the burning (which might just have been me
> being too lazy to sort out the permissions...), if you are running the
> command as root then ~ wont actually be your home directory, it'll be
> root's. You can get your own one using ~user_name so my desktop is
> ~ormiret/Desktop/ There is always the option of giving a full path as
> well, but that takes more typing.