Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:33:56 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to make an ISO image of a CD ? Message-ID: <19990603103356.F58665@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <199906031720.SAA06522@ideaglobal.com>; from Kiril Mitev on Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 06:20:49PM %2B0100 References: <199906031720.SAA06522@ideaglobal.com>
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On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 06:20:49PM +0100, Kiril Mitev wrote: > I looked through the ports, but it seems that although > there are a few utilities to write CD's, there isn't > anything to actually read the CD & make an ISO image > file out of it. > > It's an ATAPI cd rom drive, if it makes any difference :-) You shouldn't need anything special. I can make an image from my SCSI drive with: $ dd if=/dev/rcd0c of=image.iso bs=2048 You should substitute /dev/rwcd0c since you have an IDE drive, I suppose. Without the "bs=2048" I get errors due to the blocks read being shorter than the CD-ROM's sector size. You can do the same trick to read, say, a floppy disk to an image, just like the way FreeBSD installation floppies are distributed. Matt -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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