From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 23:46:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1667F37B41E for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 23:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 43235 invoked by uid 100); 22 Sep 2001 06:46:32 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15276.13256.775341.215943@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:46:32 -0500 To: "Dan Langille" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying from CD to CD In-Reply-To: <27589037@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Dan Langille types: > 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: > # 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? Try "dd if=/dev/cd0a of=/home/disc.iso bs=2048". Since you've got a SCSI cd you might also look into the audio/cdrdao port. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message