Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:43:43 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> To: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com> Cc: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to make an ISO image of a CD ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906042242510.266-100000@jane.cgu.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199906031808.TAA07664@ideaglobal.com>
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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Kiril Mitev wrote: > > > > 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 ? give it a try # vnconfig /dev/vn0c cdimage.dat # mount -t iso9660 /dev/vn0c /mnt > > > > > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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