cat /dev/cdrom > mydisk.iso

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:54:24PM -0500, Net Llama! took 20 lines to write:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > Does this not work anymore on 2.6?
> >
> > I've been using this to copy CDs for as along as I can remember. But
> > I've now tried it on FC2 and Ubuntu with no success. It just hangs.
> >
> > If this simple "trick" no longer works, how does one make an iso from a
> > physical CD?
> 
> I've never done it that way.  Try:
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=mydisk.iso

Precisely the method I use, with the possible exception of specifying
the block size ("bs=8192").

Kurt
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