new iso file

[Rick Sivernell]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:20:13 -0800
Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> >
> 
> >I know this has been discussed some time ago, but I do not remember where.
> 
> >I need to make a win 98 iso image to install on a system. I have all of the
> >files on a cd to go but need to make them into a iso. How or what is the
> >command.  Thanks
> 
> This works for me.  The bs=1440k probably doesn't make any
> difference, and you could probably select a much large block size
> to aid in buffering.
> 
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=somename.iso bs=1440k
> 
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Bill / Ken

  Thanks for the reply, the below seems to work, I will know more shortly. I will
post later on results

RSivernell:/ # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/win98.iso
dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error
1056952+0 records in
1056952+0 records out
RSivernell:/ #


Many thanks to both BIG HELP
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Rick Sivernell
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