Re: Copying a bootable CD

[Martin McCormick <martin@x.it.okstate.edu>]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_Sch=F6nhaber?= writes:
> If you don't want to use the CD copy function of one of the GUI burning
> programs, you can, for example, do the following:
> insert the CDRW into the drive and do
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=vinux.iso
> (replace "/dev/cdrom" with the device node for your drive, if different).
> Afterwards, you can burn the resulting "vinux.iso" as an image(!) to disk.
> 
> This is not necessarily "the best" way to do it but it should be a way
> that works.

Thanks!! That is an interesting direct approach. dd is one of
the best work tools out there. It is kind of easy, however, to
overlook it.