[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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