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Re: Extracting the ISO image!



On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:11:29AM -0800, TIFR students wrote:
> We've been using the extract_compressed_fs command to
> extract ISOs from a knoppix CD. However on running the
> command extract_compressed_fs we encountered the
> following error :
>  
> $ extract_compressed_fs /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX >
> /knx/sourceschool/gno3_6.iso
> 
> 29345 blocks of size 65536. Preamble:
> #!/bin/sh
> #V2.0 Format
> modprobe cloop file=$0 && mount -r -t iso9660
> /dev/cloop $1
> exit $?
What is this?  the extract_compresed_fs script?

> Block 0 length 0 => 65536
> Uncomp: input corrupt 0
It looks like the input is corrupt; the CD is probably damaged.  You
can confirm this by trying this:

	dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/null

and replacing hdc with your CD device.  If it errs, its damaged.

> We have used this command before and was working fine.  But after
> runing dist-upgrade we unable to find the command itself.How is it
> possible??
Why do you say it can't find the command?

Justin



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