On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Matt Garman wrote: > What is the best way to do CD-to-CD copying under Linux? > Specifically, I have a copy of the "official" debian 2.1 (slink) CD > of which I want to burn an identical copy. > > Is it necessary to make an ISO9660 image from the current CD and then > burn? Surely there is an easier way to get around this.
Haven't tried this one, but: dd if=/dev/cdrom1 of=/dev/stdout bs=1048576|cdrecord dev=???? speed=?? -v -xa2 /dev/stdin (try it with the -dummy flag first as I've never done this!) You may have to work with a named pipe (more likely to work) something like this: mkfifo /tmp/cdimage dd if=/dev/cdrom1 of=/tmp/cdimage bs=1048576 & cdrecord dev=???? speed=?? -v -xa2 /tmp/cdimage rm /tmp/cdimage (again, use the -dummy flag until you're pretty sure it will work). note that /tmp/cdimage never exists on the disk, a named pipe is entirely virtual. Good luck, let me know if this works. -Dano
