You shouldn't need to reboot. ls -l /dev/sr0
Mine looks like: $ ls -al /dev/sr0 brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Feb 1 17:07 /dev/sr0 If it is: br--r-----, then: $ sudo chmod u+w /dev/sr0 $ ls -al /dev/sr0 You don't mount the device to burn an iso, anyway. On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 2:49 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, Russell Senior wrote: > > > I think you want something like wodim for writing iso's to optical media, > > not dd which is more suited to writing to block devices like usb. > > Thanks, Russell. It looks like k3b will do the job once the drive is > writable. That's the problem: every tool reports the drive is read only. I > need to wait for /dev/md0 to finish being prepared before I can reboot and > see if then the rw permission for the drive is accepted. > > Once I get the DVD written I'll make another copy on a USB thumb drive, too. > > Rich
