[ale] ISO image from a mounted CDROM

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Wed Dec 15 15:24:53 EST 2004


If I recall, the cd should be UNMOUNTED for this to work, as the dd does
not act on the filesystem content, just the bare device.

Jeff

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 11:16, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> Quoting "Cordell, Ron" <ron.cordell at sipstorm.com>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How can I extract the ISO image from a mounted CDROM to a file?
> >
> > -ronc
> 
> 
> Try:
> 
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cdimage.iso
> 
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