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Date:      Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:25:00 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve Ames <steve@cioe.com>
To:        alex@cichlids.com, richard@homemail.com, SBenjamin@quest.com, steve@cioe.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, tanizaki@excite.com
Subject:   RE: burning a cd
Message-ID:  <199906111625.LAA35521@ns1.cioe.com>
In-Reply-To: <1D7D0A00F0E8D111A26600104B873E4C01783C4A@exchange.quests.com>

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If you have the CD you can use 'dd':

dd if=/dev/cd0c of=filename.img

if you have a directory structure on your HD and want to make an
image to burn to CD use 'mkisofs' from the ports collection.

> I've got a question that is somewhat related to this.. How does one go about
> making an image of a cd?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Ames [mailto:steve@cioe.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 2:45 PM
> To: alex@cichlids.com; richard@homemail.com
> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; tanizaki@excite.com
> Subject: Re: burning a cd
>
>
> > Works perfectly for me on 4.0-CURRENT from yesterday. Thanks for the
> > info :)
> > It returns an input/output error when finishing writing, but the CD is
> > ok. I just copied a 2.2.7 CD with it for testing-purposes and it also
> boots from it.
>
> Good news. Hey can you post the exact command string your using?
> I've been using 'cdrecord' to burn CDs and then the ability stopped
> a few revisions back. I'm using 'cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=1,5,0
> filename.img'.
> Seems to work fine, gives an error at the end but the CDs are quite
> unreadale. *sigh*
>
> 						-Steve
>
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