Re: mkisofs
What if you don't know the size, say, you are trying to burn someone's
cd to have a copy for yourself.
Peter Horton wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:49:10AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> > 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?
>
> The ISO image read of the CD is probably a sector or two
> too long. If you know the correct size then you can just do
>
> dd if=/dev/scd0 of=d3.iso bs=2k count=<file length / 2048>
>
> HTH,
>
> P.
>
> --
> P. Horton
> Software Engineer
> http://www.colonel-panic.com
> Linux 2.4.0
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- Re: mkisofs
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- From: Antonio Rodriguez <arodriguez@worldnet.att.net>
- Re: mkisofs
- From: Peter Horton <pdh@colonel-panic.com>