* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:35:21AM -0500]:
> I have made a few CD's and am now wanting to pull the ISO image off 
> the CD so that I can mount the image on my linux box without tying up 
> the CD-ROM.
> 
> I know he data on the disk is only around 80M, but dd copies the 
> whole CD (600M+). Someone mentioned a file called isofilesize or 
> similar that determines the size of the iso filesystem so that dd 
> will only copy the iso image and not the disk padding. Does anyone 
> know where this file is located or how to get the used portion of the 
> CD without the padding.
> 

Try:

$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdrom.iso bs=1M count=90

> Thanks,
> Chad


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Johannes Eriksson 
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