[newbie] CD copying to HD

Hi, here at work we would like to copy CD contents to a local hard drive and make it available over the network, is there such an utility in Linux that would allow us to do that? Thanks

Re: [newbie] CD copying to HD

What do you want to share over the network? The files (contents of CD)? -- just copy them to wherever you want. The iso-image? -- just copy /dev/cdrom (yes, /DEV/cdrom; not /MNT/cdrom) to a file; like this: cp /dev/cdrom /home/httpd/html/iso-images/mandrake_7.0-2.iso these .iso files can be