create .iso images?
Vram
lamsokvr at xprt.net
Fri Jan 28 06:48:25 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 22:08 -0800, Ed Fletcher wrote:
> listas at enelserver.com wrote:
> >>I want to create some .iso images from cd's I have, any idea how thats
> >>done in ubuntu?
> > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=your.iso
> > and you'll get a file your.iso
>
> I tried this with a small (1.6GB) dvd. I used the command:
>
> dd bs=2048 if=/dev/dvd of=name.iso
>
> It always copies just a few bytes and then dies with an error:
>
> dd: reading `/dev/dvd': Input/output error
> 384+0 records in
> 384+0 records out
> 786432 bytes transferred in 0.016091 seconds (48873878 bytes/sec)
>
> Does the same with /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdc. cdrom and dvd are links to
> hdc. I even tried it in a root terminal but got the same thing, so I
> know that it's not a permissions thing.
>
> The dvd is mounted and accessible from the desktop so I _should_ be able
> to dump it to an iso file.
>
> Anyone know what's going on?
>
> Ed
> --
> Ed Fletcher
> ed at fletcher.ca
>
This dosen't answer the question but does this work
cat /dev/dvd > my.iso
??
Vram
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