wow, does that work for any CD? I never thought it could be that easy. That's great! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:57 AM Subject: Re: Best place to download RH | | | 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 | > ________________________________________________ | > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. | > | > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us | > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss | > | | -- | ~Jay | | | | ________________________________________________ | See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. | | PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us | http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss