[TriLUG] creating ISO images using Linux

[That One Guy]

Still too many characters to type:

cat /dev/cdrom > cd.iso

:-)
TOG

On Friday 11 October 2002 03:10 pm, Thunder Bear wrote:
> 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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