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