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Re: [PLUG] Linux Bootable CD
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Yes a slow Sunday here too...
Another thing.... the blanket statement that CD's cannot contain blank
space is not true. CDRW's under direct CD in Win enviroments is treated
like a hard drive. Files are randomly added, erased, modified. Also since
you can only write a CDRW 999 times there are optimizations to spread the
writes over the surface, thus reducing the number of write to any one
area. So at least in the case of a CDRW, created in Windows, dd would copy
blank space, assuming it does a disk image.
BTW I rarely use this, at least the Adaptec (roxio) direct CD. I have
found it causes too many weird problems. When it works it is nice though.
Doug
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