From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 04:58:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E1316A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:58:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from bignose.ca (bignose.ca [216.126.83.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E178243FE5 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:58:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from info@bignose.ca) Received: (qmail 60172 invoked by uid 1014); 18 Nov 2003 12:58:42 -0000 Received: from info@bignose.ca by homer.bignose.ca by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20rc3 (clamscan: 0.60. spamassassin: 2.60. Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 0.08848 secs); 18 Nov 2003 12:58:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO milhouse.bignose.ca) (156.34.43.6) by bignose.ca with SMTP; 18 Nov 2003 12:58:41 -0000 From: Jeff MacDonald To: Malcolm Kay In-Reply-To: <200311181953.03725.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <20031117222211.GA18631@beast.clarksys.com> <20031117230802.GA2663@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <200311181953.03725.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1069160328.19943.1.camel@milhouse.bignose.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:58:48 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd@celestial.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making an ISO from a CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: info@bignose.ca List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:58:46 -0000 Believe if or not you can just do this 1: put the cd in 2: cat /dev/cdromdevice > foo.iso it works, i've done it many times, just don't mount the device. Jeff. On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 05:23, Malcolm Kay wrote: > 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 ISO > > > where to be burned I would like it to be identical to the original cd. > > > > dd if=/dev/$cdrom of=tmpfile.iso > > > > Where $cdrom is the appropriate device name for your CD. > > This will probably report an invalid argument and fail. The default block size > is too small for CDs. For ISO9660 data CDs add the argument 'bs=2048' > (Not sure what it should be for audio CDs) > > Malcolm > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"