Re: Copying a CD

[Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net>]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:05:34PM -0600, Marvin Aguero wrote:
> Hi guys,
>  
> I have little experience burning CDs with Linux, but I have managed to burn
> some data and audio CDs with no problems at all.
>  
> I now face a new challenge: I'd like to duplicate a CD. The CD I am trying
> to duplicate is bootable, so, I'd like to make an exact copy of it, not just
> copy the files.
>  
> Can anyone share some ideas as how to achieve this?

# make disk image
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/isofile bs=2k

# burn
cdrecord dev=whatever ... /tmp/isofile

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