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Iso-ing a CD-ROM
Posted by ahialy on Wed 20 Feb 2008 at 08:49
This morning, woah, I've tried to make an Iso of a Debian CD-ROMs. I've failed with the "dd" command, then I was looking for "mkisofs". What a wonderful world, mkisofs is already packed in my system. So, I've just done :
mkisofs -o /tmp/mydebian.iso -J -R /media/cdrom0
and everything was running right after few minutes. Enough for a coffee time.
mkisofs -o /tmp/mydebian.iso -J -R /media/cdrom0
and everything was running right after few minutes. Enough for a coffee time.
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Posted by Steve (82.32.xx.xx) on Wed 20 Feb 2008 at 10:05
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Thats definitely one way to do it, but I'd usually use dd like this:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=myimage.iso
Notice that it is using the device, not the directory, and all is well. We covered this previously in our CD-ROM & ISO cookbook.
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Like Steve I tend to use dd, it seems to work okay.
Out of interest what commands did you try that didn't work?
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
Out of interest what commands did you try that didn't work?
--
"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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BTW, 'mkisofs' is no more. It is only an alias for 'genisoimage', unless you're using an outdated system of course.
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