From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 13 10: 5:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A1537B443 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:05:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([fec0::2e0:7dff:fe81:749d] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14o32K-0005Cd-00; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:50:52 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3DCoqL58627; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:50:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:50:52 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Kal Torak Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Creating EXACT image of a CD Message-ID: <20010413135052.H75296@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3AD68EBA.EC6A8380@quake.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AD68EBA.EC6A8380@quake.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kal Torak wrote: > I want to create exact ISO images of CD's... > Like create the file system using the exact same file names and > structure, not just copying the data... If there are null sectors on > the CD or something then I want them to be part of the image... > > So yeah basically an exact image of it :) > > Anyway what tools for FreeBSD can I use to do this? with certain > options to mkisofs can it be done? or using dd or something? yeah, you should just be able to use dd. dd if=/dev/cdrom of=exact-image.iso bs=2k other block sizes may work too, you could experiment. I think with data CDs it has to be a multiple of 2k, couldn't swear to that though. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message