i'd suggest k3b. it's pretty damned impressive when it comes to copying cds regardless of copy protection. and yes, that's what it looks like is your problem.
-- we live as though the world is as it should be to show it what it can be - angel, angel "deep down" On February 3, 2004 05:39 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I've got a number of games for which I like to keep a backup copy of the > CDs at the office. This saves me having to drag around the CDs and > forgetting then in one place or another when the fancy strikes me to play. > So far so good. This has always worked. > > Recently I picked up a copy of Myst III Exile, and for whatever reason > the copies don't seem to work. My reason for suspecting that there might be > some sort of copy protection on them is a little app I used under Windows > (Iso Power Recorder) won't generate a correct iso image, so I've been doing > the image under Linux using mkisofs. mkisofs will generate the image, and > the image seems good enough to install the game, but not good enough to > play the game. > > Am I dealing with copy protection, or is this something else? > > I'm just using > > mkisofs -o EXILE_DISK_1.iso /mnt/cdrom > > which seems simple and straight forward, but maybe it's not good enough? > There are a ton of options to mkisofs. Do I need to try some other specific > ones? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list