Re: mkisofs

[Antonio Rodriguez <arodriguez@worldnet.att.net>]

Hi Steve, hi all. Tried
dd if=/dev/scd0 of=d3.iso
with my deb official cd 3 (potato rev2). 
md5sum d3.iso gives not the supposed value.
When I do it from xcdroast I get the right md5sum.
Where is the problem? Are you sure that there no options left out
somewhere?
Thanks, AR.

Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:49:48PM +0000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> >Can somebody  indicate what excatly must the command line be to copy the
> >contents of a cd to some file and store it as iso image?
> >I tried different options to do it, but the md5sum didn't match
> >afterwards. Something like the internal commandfor xcdroast perhaps,
> >since it has worked in the same case?
> 
> dd is your friend:
> 
> dd if=<cd device> of=filename.iso
> 
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