[TriLUG] creating ISO images using Linux

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Yeah, yeah....take the "easy" road TB.  ;)

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From: Thunder Bear [mailto:thunderbear at yonderway.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] creating ISO images using Linux


That two step process is twice as long as it needs to be.

1. dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.iso

Thunder Bear
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On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 02:58 PM, Greg Brown wrote:

> Neato.  This couldn't have been easier.  Here what you do:
>
> 1. mount the CD-ROM (we'll assume a mounted directory of /mnt/cdrom) 
> 2. mkisofs -o cd.iso /mnt/cdrom
>
> This creates a the file cd.iso in the current directory (now, grated,
> I've
> tried to burn this to CD yet, but all signs point towards it will 
> work).
>
> It's that easy.
>
> I love Linux. :)
>
> Oh, if you're going to attempt to use xcdroast, get the lastest
> version from
> www.xcdroast.org.  The version that ships with RH isn't the lastest and
> greatest.
>
> Greg
>
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