From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 13 15:55:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8A737B43F; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaltorak@quake.com.au) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AB6169.63.5724aadf) with ESMTP id ypwaaaaa for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 08:54:55 +1000 Message-ID: <3AD784C7.B7F0B80A@quake.com.au> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 08:59:19 +1000 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Creating EXACT image of a CD References: <3AD68EBA.EC6A8380@quake.com.au> <20010413135052.H75296@scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst wrote: > > 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. Hmmm is there a tool to check the block size of a file system? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message