Daniel L. McGrew wrote: > What is the dd command and how does it work??? I've never heard of it??? It allows you copy, byte by byte, from a device to another device. I usually use it to make images of CDROM disks (data disks, not audio disks). Assuming my cdrom device is /dev/cdrom and I want to make it's image as cdimg.iso, I use this command: $> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdimg.iso Do "man dd" for more info. ->HS