From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 18 11:30:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (irrelevant.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7E237B402 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16RehX-0000rU-00; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:29:23 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:29:23 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: Joel Dinel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DD image of a CDROM Message-ID: <20020118192923.GA3258@irrelevant.org> References: <20020118090529.A57267@sunder.touchtunes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020118090529.A57267@sunder.touchtunes.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:05:29AM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to make a dd image of a data cdrom. > > As root : > > sunder# dd if=/dev/acd0c of=cdimage.iso > dd: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes transferred in 0.000309 secs (0 bytes/sec) > sunder# > > My cdrom *is* at /dev/acd0c. I use it everyday. > > fstab : > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > Any clues? Try dd bs=2048 if=/dev/acd0c of=file.iso -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message