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Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.



If all I want to do is do a straight copy of a CD, I'd suggest just
using cdrecord (assuming of course that you have a CDROM that is
separate from your CDRW).

cdrecord dev=<your device> speed=<your speed> -v /dev/<your cdrom
device>

Sean

On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 11:10, Joe Bouchard wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:05:15AM -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.
> 
> This is what I use, and it seems to work well:
> 
> mount /cdrom
> mkisofs -r -J -R -o mycd.iso /cdrom
> optionally mount mycd.iso in loopback mode and check it out...
> cdrecord -v -data -isosize mycd.iso
> 
> I have also used the following:
> 
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=mycd.iso
> cdrecord -v -data -isosize mycd.iso
> 
> Beware of special cases, like those combincation Mac/Windows game cds.
> 
> Hope that helps.  Good luck.
> 
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> Thank you,
> Joe Bouchard
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