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[ale] ISO image from a mounted CDROM
- Subject: [ale] ISO image from a mounted CDROM
- From: james at sumners.ath.cx (james at sumners.ath.cx)
- Date: Wed Dec 15 10:03:04 2004
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
I am not sure that is possible. An ISO format copy is a bit for bit
copy of the CD. You could build your own .iso with mkisofs if you are
unable to unmount the CD. The easiest way to create the .iso, however,
is to unmount the CD and `dd if=/dev/<cd_device> of=cdcopy.iso`.
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:51:46AM -0500, Cordell, Ron wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How can I extract the ISO image from a mounted CDROM to a file?
>
> -ronc
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