[ale] ISO image from a mounted CDROM

[Allan Neal]

It will not work with the device mounted.  It will fail and report that the
device is busy.

Allan

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:40:15PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> >If I recall, the cd should be UNMOUNTED for this to work, as the dd does
> >not act on the filesystem content, just the bare device.
> 
> I'm thinking it will work either way.  You're reading from the device, 
> thus it shouldn't matter if it's mounted or not.  That is, as long as 
> nothing's writing to it. :)
> 
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
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