Best place to download RH

[Jeff]

wow, does that work for any CD? I never thought it could be that easy.
That's great!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay" <jay@kinetic.org>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: Best place to download RH


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| The easiest way I've found to make an ISO from the CD is simply (while the
| CD is *not* mounted):
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| cat /dev/cdrom > image.iso
|
| ~Jay
|
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|
| On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Kevin Buettner wrote:
|
| > On Apr 30,  9:18am, Carl Parrish wrote:
| >
| > > Well since I'm *still* downloading from last night I'm *very*
interested
| > > in this idea. I assume what I'd have to do is pull the iso off of the
| > > disk (or I should say copy it to my harddrive). rsync it to a public
| > > mirror do a md5sum to check it this time :( , then burn a new CD. This
| > > all seems fine but whats the best way to pull a iso off of the disk? I
| > > mean just going cp /mnt/cdrom won't work will it?
| >
| > I keep thinking that the ``readcd'' command ought to do something
| > useful.  Maybe it does, but I've never been able to make it work.
| >
| > I think you should be able to get something useful with the dd
| > command though:
| >
| >     dd if=/dev/cdrom of=img.iso
| >
| > Kevin
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