From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Nov 15 7:43:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.trit.org (bazooka.trit.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A998037B417 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:43:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by bazooka.trit.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7054F3E84; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:43:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bazooka (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bazooka.trit.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF663C134; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:43:27 +0000 (UTC) To: Michael Lucas Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/31990: new FAQ: imaging a data CD In-Reply-To: <200111142010.fAEKA3W57453@freefall.freebsd.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on "Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:10:03 -0800 (PST)" Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:43:22 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20011115154327.7054F3E84@bazooka.trit.org> 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 Michael Lucas wrote: > *** 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 Did you try to look at the rendered output for this? It looks really, really ugly with the line break there. , like , is whitespace-sensitive. > + > + This method does not work with audio CDs. > + > + For more on working with CDROMs, see + URL="../handbook/creating-cds.html">this chapter I think naming the chapter would help, since it's possible to render the FAQ in formats there hyperlinks don't work (e.g., txt, pdf). In those cases, this reference is absolutely useless. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message