Doug Crompton on Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:42:26 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] Linux Bootable CD


On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Fred K Ollinger wrote:

> 
> I've dupliated all sorts of cds this way. It usually works flawlessly on
> even bootable cds even if I don't have support for that fs:
> 
> dd if=/dev/cdrom cdrom.iso
> 
> then I use cdrecord to burn cd.
> 
> Fred
> 

For a bootCD or CD of known length wouldn't you want to add something
like:

bs=10k count=<expected size/10K> 

I am not sure. Does dd from a device without limits copy the entire
medium?

Doug

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