[ale] dd command and winbloze

[Jeff Hubbs]

Stephen Turner wrote:

>ok i figured i would make a couple of 750mb partitions
>for os's, considering my os's never get big enough to
>exceed that and also i would use the dd command with
>the cdrom to back up windoze and linux when i had an
>acceptable disk image, how would i want to phrase the
>dd command for writeing to a cdr and would i need cdr
>drivers to do this? or just reg atapi drivers? thanks
>for your time and help
>
Stephen -

It's going to be worse than that to write to a CD-R because you have to 
build the ISO filesystem.  Look at

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1

and scroll down a bit to see where they talk about piping the output of 
mkisofs into cdrecord if your machine can take it.

- Jeff


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