At 02:05 AM 12/2/01 -0500, Titus Barik wrote: >I'm trying to make an ISO image of a Windows 98 Second Edition CD. I've >done this before in Windows, but not in Linux. > >I wasn't sure how to make an ISO, so I tried: > >cat /dev/cdrom > /tmp/cd.iso > >Unfortunately, that seems to always give me: > >cat: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error >
that's an ambitious use of cat... try: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cd.iso pretty sure u wanted /cdrom unmounted when you do it, but try it both ways dd is much better at raw data imaging. John
