On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 17:14 -0500, Justin Willmert wrote: > arora.himanshu@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to create an iso file of a CD in linux. The use of the > > command cat /dev/cdrom > file.iso is not woriking nither I am able to > > mount the CD. It is giving Input/Output error. But gnome-cd is able to > > play the cd. How should I do this ? > > > > Himanshu > > > > You should be able to do this: > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/file.iso > > You can probably speed up the copying with the bs option, but I don't > use this very often, so I'm a bit rusty, so I'd suggest you read up dd's > man file. dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/file.iso bs=2k CDs use a 2048-byte block size. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The problem with being poor is that it takes up all of your time - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
