June 2008
Beginner
360 pages
9h 9m
English
Burning data CDs and DVDs in GNOME is extremely easy. All you have to do is place a blank CD-R (CD-Recordable) or DVD (DVD-RW, DVD-R, and DVD+RW are all supported by Ubuntu) in your drive, making sure to select a media format supported by your drive, and Nautilus's CD/DVD Creator window will then appear, which as you no doubt notice looks pretty similar to other Nautilus windows, save for the brown band below the location bar and the Write to Disc button (Figure 6-10).

Figure 6-10. A Nautilus CD/DVD Creator window with files ready to be burned to disk
Once the CD/DVD Creator window is open, copying the files you want to burn ...