On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:28, Marshal Newrock wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > How about just unmounting the disk and trying: > > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso > > > perhaps? That'll give you an exact (and burnable) copy of the disk. > > > > Not a happy dd process... > > > > Gentoo2 root # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso > > dd: reading `/dev/cdrom':Input/oupuut error > > 3304+0 records in > > 3304+0 records out > > Gentoo2 root # > > That's correct. You get an I/O error when it hits the end of the disk. > If you mount the .iso on loopback, you'll see it's complete. > > readcd (which I think comes with cdrtools) also does a similar thing.
That's really interesting. Can you explain 'mounting on loopback'? What is that? I only have one Linux book (Linux in a Nutshell) and it doesn't have loopback in the index. Anyway, if there's a chance that will work I'll do it again and write the CDR. Thanks! - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
