[PLUG] using dd
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Feb 13 10:52:02 UTC 2004
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Vincent Yau wrote:
> I have a bunch of VCD format movies in CD that I want to dd out
> to my harddrive as iso.
>
> So I did this:
>
> mount /dev/cdrom
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/usr/local/cdfile.iso
See related thread from a couple of days ago. Then read 'man mkisofs'
before reading 'man cdrecord'.
dd is a bit-by-bit copy. It does not make an iso file system. CD-rom
drives expect an ISO file system on their media.
Rich
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