[ubuntu-za] ISO image

Chris Schoonbee cmschoonbee at mweb.co.za
Fri Jan 8 13:20:28 GMT 2010


> If you get a lot of I/O Errors use ddrescue from 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html , NOT the one in the 
> repo's as they are not the same. To use it run ddrescue /dev/scd0 
> image.iso logfile.log .If you use a log you will be able to stop it and 
> continue later. It has a lot of options and there's not much it won't copy.
>
>   
Hannes, I am just curious why you say NOT to use the ddrescue provided 
in the repo's.  I have not used either one but from the package 
description, it seems as if the repo package would do the trick.  Is 
there a potential problem with it?



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