DD is not working

cj debiani386 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 21:00:45 UTC 2007


Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> (``-_-ยดยด) -- Fernando wrote:
>   
>> On Wednesday 01 August 2007 17:18:57 cj wrote:
>>     
>>> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/debian/name.iso
>>>       
>> try #dd if=/cdrom of=/home/debian/name.iso
>>
>>     
> do not mount the device you want to dd from.
> For test
> try another physical CD and/or, if you have, another drive to read from.
>
> try as root:
> dd if /dev/hdc of=/path/to/younameit.iso (where "hdc" is the device name
> of your cd rom, that you are reading from. Change that for what you
> actually have)
>
> regards
> Eberhard
>
>
>   
if you didnt see my other posts, i fixed the problem. appearantly the cd 
i was using had *.cda files on it and dd didnt like that so i switched cds

--cj




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