From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 15:44:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.unixathome.org (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB0337B412 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:44:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wocker (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by lists.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8LMhrj85109 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:43:57 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:43:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: copying from CD to CD Reply-To: dan@langille.org Message-ID: <3BAB8A64.26207.EB13D33@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v4.0, beta 40) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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 I want to get an ISO from a CD. I was hoping I could create an ISO directly from it. It appears I'm doing it wrong: # mount /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da1s1f on /home (ufs, local) /dev/ad0s1e on /slow (ufs, local) /dev/da0s1e on /usr (ufs, NFS exported, local) /dev/da1s1e on /var (ufs, local) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) # grep cdrom /etc/fstab /dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 [root@xeon:~] # mount /cdrom [root@xeon:~] # umount /cdrom # dd if=/dev/cd0a of=/home/disc.iso dd: /dev/cd0a: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.005591 secs (0 bytes/sec) I've also tried cd0c...rcd... etc. Should I be copying the files to disk then doing a mkisofs? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message