Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:05:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: "Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko" <doublef@tele-kom.ru> Cc: "W. Sierke" <ws@au.dyndns.ws> Subject: Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)? Message-ID: <20040107094356.V24917@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20040107093611.0a7983df.doublef@tele-kom.ru> References: <02b401c3d2d7$81439f40$8464a8c0@ovirt.dyndns.ws> <20040107081315.0786de1e.doublef@tele-kom.ru> <20040107093611.0a7983df.doublef@tele-kom.ru>
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > Ah, I see, first mount the cdrom, then make an iso from its filesystem - > then that's OK, but is seems a little of an overkill, as the cdrom > already `contains' the iso. If created your way, the image will not > be completely identical to the one on the cd (for example, the boot > sectors, if any, will be missing). Yes. I mentioned that, the mkisofs approach would not be a bootable image. Thanks for pointing out the difference. I could never figure out how to make an ISO of a bootable CD. :-) Other than speed is there any consideration about the buffer size?
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