Copy iso Disk

[Carl Parrish]

You could use xcdroast. But I perfer just using cdrecord.

Carl P. 


On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:35, DARREN BROWN wrote:
> I want to use the CD as the soucre and make a copy like to original CD.  Do you have any suggestions on what cmd to use or how to do it?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Darren
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Nash
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 10:11 AM
> To: Plug-discuss
> Subject: Re: Copy iso Disk
> 
> On 12 Nov 2002, Carl Parrish wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 22:26, DARREN BROWN wrote:
> > > The if=/dev/cdrom is the CD inside the CDROM containing the data I wish to copy.
> > >
> > > Then what is of=/target/dir/file.iso?
> > > If I understand, file.iso is the data that is copied to this directory.
> > > If so, can I then copy the data to a CD burner?  Like a USB burner? HP....
> > >
> >
> > The only think I'm a bit unclear of here is if I'd need to then run
> > mkisofs on file.iso
> >
> 
> If you're using dd with the cdrom as your source, no. You're
> duplication the contents, which are already in iso format. mkisofs is for
> making an ISO from a file structure that *isn't* in ISO9660 format. My
> example before of using mkisofs on the mounted file system, would work for
> replication of the iso, since you're just creating a new one from a
> mounted file system, but as has been pointed out, won't maintain
> boot sectors and the like.
> 
> - billn
> 
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