Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.

[John Griffiths <john@capmon.com>]

At 02:05 AM 12/2/01 -0500, Titus Barik wrote:
>I'm trying to make an ISO image of a Windows 98 Second Edition CD. I've
>done this before in Windows, but not in Linux.
>
>I wasn't sure how to make an ISO, so I tried:
>
>cat /dev/cdrom > /tmp/cd.iso
>
>Unfortunately, that seems to always give me:
>
>cat: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
>

that's an ambitious use of cat...

try:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cd.iso

pretty sure u wanted /cdrom unmounted when you do it, but try it both ways

dd is much better at raw data imaging.

John