On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 09:16, Vinicius wrote: > Em SÃb, 2004-09-25 Ãs 23:21, Shawn Milo escreveu: > > YigalB wrote: > > > > > I have a game which my kids love very much, run on XP. The company > > > which made this CD is no longer alive, and the CD starts to be in bed > > > shape â so I must back it up â the sooner is better. > > > > > > Is there a SW to do it under Fedora core? I know some utils under XP > > > (clone CD, Nero etc). > > > > > > Oh yea â one more thing â the CD is protected â I guess it has some > > > âbad sectorsâ or similar. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Yigal > > > > > > > I suggest trying dd. It is a simple command-line utility which will copy > > a file byte by byte, and will not be fooled by "bad sector" problems. > > > > Syntax: dd bs=32 if=/dev/hdb of=/home/yourname/file.iso > > > > The "bs=32" tells it to read in 32 bytes and write out 32 bytes, > > regardless of > > the junk in those bytes. This will even allow you to make copies of > > filesystems > > your system does not understand. > > > > Shawn > > > > "$ dd bs=32 if=/dev/cdrom1 of=FS2004_4.iso > dd: lendo `/dev/cdrom1': Erro de entrada/saÃda > 48384+0 registros de entrada > 48384+0 registros de saÃda" > > "$ dd bs=32 if=/dev/hdd of=FS2004_4.iso > dd: lendo `/dev/hdd': Erro de entrada/saÃda > 48384+0 registros de entrada > 48384+0 registros de saÃda" > > So the both cases shows me a file FS2004_4.iso with 1548288 bytes. > > "$ df > /dev/hdd 630M 630M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom1" > > Is it right? > what does 'du FS2004_4.iso' or 'ls -l FS2004_4.iso' give? First look says not a complete copy, but...
