The easiest way I've found to make an ISO from the CD is simply (while the
CD is *not* mounted):

cat /dev/cdrom > image.iso

~Jay



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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~Jay