[ale] dd command and winbloze

[Chris Fowler]

I believe you can do that.  I do not think Winbloze will be able to read it.  Winbloze expects ISO9660.  Linux will have no problem reading the disk.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: "Glenn C. Lasher Jr." <glasher at nycap.rr.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 06:18:29 -0500 (EST)
To: Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at attbi.com>
Subject: Re: [ale] dd command and winbloze 


> 
> Can't you pipe the output of dd straight to cdrecord?  Granted, the fs
> wouldn't be ISO-9660, then, it would be whatever the OS used as native,
> but it should work.  For that matter, one might even experiment with not
> using DD at all, but rather just cdrecord, using /dev/whatever for the
> disc image, e.g.:
> 
> cdrecord -v -data -pad -speed=16 dev=1,0,0 /dev/hda1
> 
> ..of course, the partitions should be 650-700MB, not 750....
> 
> ..also, this isn't something I've tried (all of my partitions are too
> large for this) but it sounds like you *should* be able to do it.
> 
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> > Stephen Turner wrote:
> >
> > >ok i figured i would make a couple of 750mb partitions
> > >for os's, considering my os's never get big enough to
> > >exceed that and also i would use the dd command with
> > >the cdrom to back up windoze and linux when i had an
> > >acceptable disk image, how would i want to phrase the
> > >dd command for writeing to a cdr and would i need cdr
> > >drivers to do this? or just reg atapi drivers? thanks
> > >for your time and help
> > >
> > Stephen -
> >
> > It's going to be worse than that to write to a CD-R because you have to
> > build the ISO filesystem.  Look at
> >
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1
> >
> > and scroll down a bit to see where they talk about piping the output of
> > mkisofs into cdrecord if your machine can take it.
> >
> > - Jeff
> >
> >
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> glasher at nycap.rr.com
> You've been programmed by the Illuminati not to see the word "".
> 
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