Re: burning a CD
On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:59 am, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> I have put a CD with MS Office in one Linux Box. I need to copy its
> contents for burning on a separate Linux box. What is the best way to
> do this?
>
> I supposed I could just copy the entire contents to a directory on the
> second box. Or I could tar the contents to the Linux box, couldn't I,
> and then somehow tell xcdroast to burn from a tar image?
> Or, I supposed I could somehow mount the CDRom of the first box on the
> second box and then just do a CD copy?
>
> I don't really know, I've never done this before.
>
> Curtis
If it's Office 2000 or older, a simple disk copy will work. If it's XP, I
don't know. If an ordinary disk copy does not work, try the dd command, as
it does a literal byte-by-byte copy. This should take care of any
odd/hidden/sekkrit bits.
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