Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 19:08:20 +0100 (BST) From: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com> To: mph@astro.caltech.edu (Matthew Hunt) Cc: kiril@ideaglobal.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to make an ISO image of a CD ? Message-ID: <199906031808.TAA07664@ideaglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <19990603103356.F58665@wopr.caltech.edu> from "Matthew Hunt" at Jun 3, 99 10:33:56 am
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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. Thanks, but will it have all relevant ISO header stuff & such as well ? > > 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/ * > Kiril To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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