On Wed December 20 2006 5:43 pm, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > There are all sorts of GUI tools which will do that. The first > ones that come to mind, are k3b and gnomebaker. There is also > a low-tech command line approach available. Assuming that your > CD drive is /dev/hdc you can either dd if=/dev/hdc > of=music.iso bs=1024 > or, if you want to be a true UNIX mofo, you can > cat /dev/hdc > music.iso $ sudo dd if=/dev/hdc of=xmas.iso bs=1024 Password: dd: reading `/dev/hdc': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.0019958 seconds, 0.0 kB/s [cj@vrproductions3 audio]$ cat /dev/hdc > xmas.iso cat: /dev/hdc: Input/output error I've tried your suggestions as user and sudo - I get the above error - when I put the audio cd in, a device icon appears on my desktop for the mount - if I hover over it, it is shown as /dev/hdc - I use the KDE desktop Reading the cdrdao man page right now -- Claude Jones Brunswick, Md, USA
