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Re: xcdroast and devfs



Quoth Brian May, 
> Is it possible to copy a CD using command line tools? (for legal
> reasons of course)

If it's a data CD, just create an image with:

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

then write it with cdrecord. I believe it's actually possible to have
the output piped directly to cdrecord, but I don't know the switches off
the top of my head. Also creating the image first is less likely to
result in a coaster.

If it's a music CD, use cdparanoia (from the people who later bought us
ogg vorbis), then cdrecord. Or use cdrao (or something like that).

Personally, when I have used cd burners, usually I'll use gcombust,
which works well. I started off with command line tools, however, and
they work well.

HTH,

damon

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