Re: cd -> iso

[ABrady <nala@kc.rr.com>]

Rogério Brito wrote:

> On Jun 18 2005, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
>  
>
> > cp /dev/hdc image.iso
> >    
>
> And yet another option for those interested in it is using the readcd
> program, available in the cdrecord package. The usage is something like
> this, under a 2.6 kernel:
>
> readcd dev=/dev/your/cd f=/where/you/want/your/image.iso
>
> This method is better than using plain cp or dd because readcd will try to
> do some error correction on the CD/DVD being duplicated.
>
>
> Hope this helps, Rogério.
>
>  
Nice. I found out, though, that an error is generated concerning not 
having exclusive access to it if the drive is mounted.

Another downside to automount.

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