Re: [PLUG] Linux Bootable CD

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> I want to also try raw-reading a cdrom by dd this way but am
> afraid to have any sort of error.  I recall that the cd-writing
> howto has some warnings about using dd and surface read errors...
> if theres a read error does dd at least complain for warning?

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


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