On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:59:11AM +1030, W. Sierke wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a straightforward way of creating a file image (.iso) of a data > cdrom mounted in an atapi cd-rom drive? All my googling has turned up is > suggestions like dd if=/dev/acd0 ... but I neither have nor can create (with > MAKEDEV) /dev/acd0 (only /dev/acd0a and /dev/acd0c - FreeBSD 4.8)
You want to use /dev/acd0c - the 'c' partition covers the whole disk. Something like: dd if=/dev/acd0c of=foo.iso bs=64k should do what you want. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"