From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 13 13: 1:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from LKLDDC01.GARGANTUAN.COM (145bus8.tampabay.rr.com [24.94.145.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3277937B417 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:01:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by LKLDDC01.GARGANTUAN.COM with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:01:22 -0500 Message-ID: <1DA741CA6767A144BAA4F10012536C27A907@LKLDDC01.GARGANTUAN.COM> From: "Oliver, Michael W." To: 'Bill Schoolcraft' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: dd if=/cdrom of=file.iso ?? Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:01:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have found success using the following command: $dd bs=2048 if=/dev/cd0c of=~/blah.iso Note that I am using a SCSI CDROM. I think that with an ATAPI CDROM, you would use /dev/acd0c, but I could be mistaken. HTH... =========== Michael Oliver > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Schoolcraft [mailto:bill@wiliweld.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:59 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: dd if=/cdrom of=file.iso ?? > > > Hello, > > I've just run the above command on Linux and it worked fine and now > I'm not able to do this on FreeBSD-4.2, is there something here I'm > missing, can anyone help ? > > This is a CD with the archives of Unix data and I just want to not > have to use the cd everytime to view it. > > -- > Bill Schoolcraft > PO Box 210076 -o) > San Francisco CA 94121 /\ > "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v > http://forwardslashunix.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message