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Date:      Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:46:32 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: copying from CD to CD
Message-ID:  <15276.13256.775341.215943@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <27589037@toto.iv>

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Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> types:
> I want to get an ISO from a CD. I was hoping I could create an ISO directly from it.  It appears 
> I'm doing it wrong:
> # dd if=/dev/cd0a of=/home/disc.iso
> dd: /dev/cd0a: Invalid argument
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 0.005591 secs (0 bytes/sec)
> 
> I've also tried cd0c...rcd... etc.
> 
> Should I be copying the files to disk then doing a mkisofs?

Try "dd if=/dev/cd0a of=/home/disc.iso bs=2048". Since you've got a
SCSI cd you might also look into the audio/cdrdao port.

	<mike
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
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