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Subject: Re: Making an ISO from a CD
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:38, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003, Max Clark wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >How do you create an ISO from a cd as the source? Obviously when the I=
SO
> > where to be burned I would like it to be identical to the original cd=
=2E
>
> dd if=3D/dev/$cdrom of=3Dtmpfile.iso
>
> Where $cdrom is the appropriate device name for your CD.

This will probably report an invalid argument and fail. The default block=
 size=20
is too small for CDs. For ISO9660 data CDs add the argument 'bs=3D2048'
(Not sure what it should be for audio CDs)

Malcolm