----- Forwarded by Richard Meyer/Australia/Contr/IBM on 27/02/2004 02:17 PM
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Mike Holland
<myk at westnet.com. To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
au> cc:
Sent by: Subject: Re: [plug] burning an iso image to CD
plug-admin at plug.l
inux.org.au
27/02/2004 12:37
PM
Please respond to
plug
>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Richard Meyer wrote:
>> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/mnt/downloads/xxxxx.iso ===== expect this
to
>Is there any reason for using dd (with its evil non-unix syntax) rather
>than plain old 'cp' ? (Or cat even.)
> I see that a lot, sometimes specifying block size, but it doesnt seem to
>make any difference, at least with modern kernels.
Yup,
1) I want an image copy of the CD, not a copy of all the files off it.
2) It's always worked for me.
3) Who cares whether the syntax is or isn't unix? (I certainly don't)
Can 'cp' even do image copies?
Cheers
RichardM