From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 10:56: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7121507C for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id XAA13708; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 23:54:06 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id XAA01152; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 23:10:40 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by jane.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA00672; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:43:44 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: jane.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:43:43 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@jane.cgu.chel.su To: Kiril Mitev Cc: Matthew Hunt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to make an ISO image of a CD ? In-Reply-To: <199906031808.TAA07664@ideaglobal.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Kiril Mitev wrote: > > > > 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 ? give it a try # vnconfig /dev/vn0c cdimage.dat # mount -t iso9660 /dev/vn0c /mnt > > > > > 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 * 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message