From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 1 3:26:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DC437B40A for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 03:26:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sobek.lan ([62.252.12.247]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010901102610.COSM20588.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.lan>; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:26:10 +0100 Received: (from greid@localhost) by sobek.lan (8.11.5/8.11.5) id f81AQ8114144; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:26:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: sobek.lan: greid set sender to greid@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:26:08 +0100 From: George Reid To: edwin chan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: how to make a iso file from CD ? Message-ID: <20010901112608.A13981@FreeBSD.org> References: <200109010954.f819sFZ33282@www.suntop-cn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109010954.f819sFZ33282@www.suntop-cn.com>; from slack@www.suntop-cn.com on Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:54:15PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:54:15PM +0800, edwin chan wrote: > I am new to freebsd. when a use slackware(linux), I can backup my bootable > cd with command "dd if=/dev/ of=tools.iso", but on freebsd, this > command simply don't work. how can I make a iso file from my tools CD ? You need to use a block size of 2048 bytes, eg: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=foo.iso bs=2048 -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message