[ale] ISO image from a mounted CDROM

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Dec 15 10:21:45 EST 2004


That is how I do it.  With dd.

Got errors on the disc then you can do conv=noerror ont he dd command
line.  Data might not be too good but it might be enough to get you a
copy that will not hang up the cd drive when trying to read it.

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 10:00, james at sumners.ath.cx wrote:
> I am not sure that is possible. An ISO format copy is a bit for bit
> copy of the CD. You could build your own .iso with mkisofs if you are
> unable to unmount the CD. The easiest way to create the .iso, however,
> is to unmount the CD and `dd if=/dev/<cd_device> of=cdcopy.iso`.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:51:46AM -0500, Cordell, Ron wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > How can I extract the ISO image from a mounted CDROM to a file?
> > 
> > -ronc



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