From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Nov 14 12:10:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E2537B405 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id fAEKA3W57453; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200111142010.fAEKA3W57453@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Michael Lucas Subject: Re: docs/31990: new FAQ: imaging a data CD Reply-To: Michael Lucas Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/31990; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Michael Lucas To: John Baldwin Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/31990: new FAQ: imaging a data CD Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:02:01 -0500 --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:59:09AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > Uh, shouldn't that be /dev/acd0 according to the previous paragraph? But the example worked on my system... ;) Mea culpa. Correction attached. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=cdimage *** en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml-dist Wed Nov 14 14:12:52 2001 --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml Wed Nov 14 14:32:50 2001 *************** *** 5714,5719 **** --- 5714,5744 ---- + + How can I create an image of a data CD? + + + + If you want to make a bit-by-bit copy of a CD (so you + can, for example, duplicate it with a CD burner), use + &man.dd.1;. The example given here assumes that you have + a IDE CDROM device that shows up as + acd0. If you have a SCSI CD + drive, you will want to substitute the correct device + name. + + &prompt.user; dd if=/dev/acd0c + of=file.iso bs=2048 + + This method does not work with audio CDs. + + For more on working with CDROMs, see this chapter + in the Handbook. + + + + How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD? --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message