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Date:      Thu, 3 Jun 1999 19:08:20 +0100 (BST)
From:      Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com>
To:        mph@astro.caltech.edu (Matthew Hunt)
Cc:        kiril@ideaglobal.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to make an ISO image of a CD ?
Message-ID:  <199906031808.TAA07664@ideaglobal.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990603103356.F58665@wopr.caltech.edu> from "Matthew Hunt" at Jun 3, 99 10:33:56 am

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> On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 06:20:49PM +0100, Kiril Mitev wrote:
> 
> > I looked through the ports, but it seems that although
> > there are a few utilities to write CD's, there isn't
> > anything to actually read the CD & make an ISO image
> > file out of it.
> > 
> > It's an ATAPI cd rom drive, if it makes any difference :-)
> 
> You shouldn't need anything special.  I can make an image from my
> SCSI drive with:
> 
> $ dd if=/dev/rcd0c of=image.iso bs=2048
> 
> You should substitute /dev/rwcd0c since you have an IDE drive, I
> suppose.  Without the "bs=2048" I get errors due to the blocks read
> being shorter than the CD-ROM's sector size.

Thanks, but will it have all relevant ISO header stuff & such as well ?

> 
> You can do the same trick to read, say, a floppy disk to an image,
> just like the way FreeBSD installation floppies are distributed.
> 
> Matt
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon.
> http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           *
> 

Kiril



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