tlug: cd to file

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Scott Stone writes: 
 > 
 > What's the best way to copy a CD's entire contents to an image file?  I've
 > tried:
 > 
 > dd if=/dev/hdc of=cdrom.img bs=1k count= (output from isosize / 1024)
 > 
 > but I get a read I/O error every time... probably because it's reading
 > past the end of the CD, since the CD doesn't end on a 1k block boundary.
 > Using bs=1 takes all day... so how do I do this??
 > 
Can`t you just do a cat /dev/hdc >cdrom.img. This should give you an
iso-image that you can burn with cdwrite and even mount. I`ve never
done that, but my brother has some experince with that. I`ll ask him.

Marcus

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