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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
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Subject: Re: Creating an ISO-Image with 5.2
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Thomas Krause -CI- <freebsd-stable@chef-ingenieur.de> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert schrieb:
> 
> > Thomas Krause -CI- <freebsd-stable@chef-ingenieur.de> writes:
> >
> >>this is (maybe) a stupid question: How do I create an ISO image from
> >>an ATAPI cdrom (data CD) when there is no /dev/acd0c ?
> > There's an acd0, right?
> >
> 
> Right, but Chapter 12 of the FreeBSD Handbook means:
> 
>   A c must be appended to the end of the device name to indicate the
> entire partition or, in the case of CDROMs, the entire disc.
> 
> # dd if=/dev/acd0c of=file.iso bs=2048
> 
> Now that you have an image, you can burn it to CD as described above.
> 
> ?

In 5.x, the device is just acd0 instead of acd0c.
The documentation is still lagging a little in covering 5.x; 
why don't you submit changes so that this particular difference 
can be covered before 5.x is officially recommended for 
ordinary users?