Re: Cheap CDs

[bob parker <bob_parker@dodo.com.au>]

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 05:59, bob parker wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 05:06, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> > Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without
> > my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good program for
> > cloning bootable data CDs? I want to make a couple extra copies of the
> > Woody CDs, and with both a burner and a CD-ROM on my box, I'd like to be
> > able to just load both up and *copy*, but nothing seems to handle it all
> > that well. I know that Xcdroast will clone audio CDs, but that is not my
> > goal.
>
> cat /dev/cdrom > cd.iso
>
> cdrecord -scanbus	that gets you the device number for your burner
> 			eg 0,3,0 for dev=
>
> cdrecord -v speed=your_burner_speed dev=x,y,z cd.iso
>
> The boot stuff is already in the iso image, it got put there during the
> mkisofs stage ( assuming it's a bootable cd you are copying ).
>
> If you want to check the iso image before burning it
>
> mount -r -t iso9660 -o loop cd.iso /mnt

Sorry, that should read:
	mount cd.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt
then maybe do ls -lR to check contents etc

Sems the R in RTFM stands for Read, not Remember the contents

Cheers
Bob