Re: [OT] Making images from CDs

["Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak" <dingo@texoma.net>]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:

JK> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:54:14AM -0400, Stefanus Du Toit wrote:
JK> > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:19:24PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
JK> > > >   find /dev/cdrom -type f -exec cat {} \> /dev/null \;
JK> > 
JK> > doing it on the device file won't get you anywhere :)
JK> 
JK> Who said it has to be a device file?  (tested, this time)  :-)  
JK> 
JK>   rm -rf /dev/cdrom
JK>   mkdir /dev/cdrom
JK>   mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom
JK>   find /dev/cdrom -type f -exec cat {} \> /dev/null \;

you guys are getting too complicated ;)

this is my favorite :)

    dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/destination/image.iso

the cd doesn't have to be mounted and of course the /dev/cdrom is device not a
directory :)

                                                Dingo.


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