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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2000 22:17:38 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "gummibear@nettaxi.com" <gummibear@nettaxi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I create/rip an ISO image from a CDROM? 
Message-ID:  <200012160417.eBG4Hc454764@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "gummibear@nettaxi.com" <gummibear@nettaxi.com>  of "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:23:45 PST." <200012151923.LAA17566@mail17.bigmailbox.com> 

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"gummibear@nettaxi.com" writes:
> Hi!
> I needed to make a backup copy of a cdrom and I needed to know how to
> go about creating or ripping a cdrom image and saving it do disk.  I
> did a few searches through the mailing list and found mostly
> information on burning cdrom images, but all I'd like to do is create
> an ISO image from a CDROM and then I'd like to be able to mount the
> image (I already know how to mount it using vnconfig - thanks to
> FreeBSD Diary).  I also came across mkisofs, but (I might be wrong) I
> believe that's for creating iso images from disk (hardrive) files so
> I'm not sure if that would help.  I thought I read somewhere that I
> can use dd to create an image from the cdrom to the hardisk, although
> I'm not sure where I saw that.

Am told somewhere in the ports collection is a utility for exactly that 
purpose. In the past, if it was a simple single session ISO-9660 disc 
I'd use cdrecord (SCSI only) to read the size off of the disk, then use 
dd to read the disk in 2k blocks, with a count of 2 less than cdrecord 
said. This procedure was able to recreate an exact image of what I had 
used previously to create the CD-R.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.




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