Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom
> ...
> > Volume size is: 1939608
> > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048
> > count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc
> > 1939608+0 records in
> > 1939608+0 records out
> > 3972317184 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 711.022 s, 5.6 MB/s
>
> Ok. Did you try to md5sum the image file? You can compare that to the
> md5sum of the DVD.

That was on my todo list when I went to bed last night.
Thomas Schmitt's post seems to imply that all went as the 
designers intended.
Things just didn't match my preconceived ideas.

> > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/home/richard/myiso1.iso
> > bs=2048 count=1939608 of=/dev/sdb conv=notrunc
> > 1939608+0 records in
> > 1939608+0 records out
> > 3972317184 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 1591.35 s, 2.5 MB/s
>
> Not sure if this makes a differences, but why the count= and conv= ?

I was blindly following a example.

> To keep things simple, could you please retry with
>
>      cp /home/richard/myiso1.iso /dev/sdb
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei