> Sorry, this won't work. You need a special tool to write to cd's. To copy > the source cd you can either use cdda2wav or paranoia if it's a music cd > (aka 'red book'), mount mkisofs (do a man on this program for more info), > or use sdd (scsi dd) to do a bit-for-bit copy of the source. Note though, > that the last option does actually do a bit for bit copy, meaning even > things such as scratches will show up on the copy (the other tools would > normally fix these problems). Once you have an image of the disc you'd > like to copy, use cdrecord to burn the cd; the syntax wil be something > like "cdrecord -v dev=0,2,0 -eject speed=4 -audio *wav", just do a man on > cdrecord.
I have to disagree with part of what was said above. I use plain old dd to grab images off (data) CD-ROMs all the time. A simple dd if=/dev/sr0 of=image.iso bs=8192000 works for me. Of course, this doesn't work with audio CDs (I use cdparanoia for them). -Jon Burchmore
