Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-07-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/02/11 at 12:54pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 02/07/11 07:20, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 23:49:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >> conv=notrunc means "do not truncate the output file" according to the > >> manpage, but I have no ideea what it's good for, but doesn't sound li

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/07/11 07:20, Brian wrote: > On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 23:49:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> conv=notrunc means "do not truncate the output file" according to the >> manpage, but I have no ideea what it's good for, but doesn't sound like >> it would affect your image :p > > That's a probl

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-07-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 23:49:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > conv=notrunc means "do not truncate the output file" according to the > manpage, but I have no ideea what it's good for, but doesn't sound like > it would affect your image :p That's a problem which can happen with man pages. You thi

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-07-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 iun 11, 06:13:21, Martin McCormick wrote: > William Hopkins writes: > > $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048 conv=notrunc > > > > then burn the ISO using your tool of choice (wodim, etc.) > > This worked perfectly. Thank you. > > Interestingly, I tried the dd command

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-07-01 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Martin McCormick > wrote: >> >> William Hopkins writes: >> > $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048 conv=notrunc >> > >> > then burn the ISO using your tool of choice (wodim, etc.) >> >>        This wo

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-30 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > William Hopkins writes: > > $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048 conv=notrunc > > > > then burn the ISO using your tool of choice (wodim, etc.) > >This worked perfectly. Thank you. > >Interestingly, I tried the dd com

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-29 Thread Martin McCormick
William Hopkins writes: > $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048 conv=notrunc > > then burn the ISO using your tool of choice (wodim, etc.) This worked perfectly. Thank you. Interestingly, I tried the dd command with the parameters above and without and got the same bytes in

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 iun 11, 08:24:19, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a bootable live CD of an out-dated version of a > specialized distribution of Debian called Vinux. I never saved > the ISO image and I now want to copy from the CDRW it is on to a > CDR to use as a rescue disk on systems that can not read

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-28 Thread Preston Boyington
William Hopkins wrote: On 06/28/11 at 08:39am, Martin McCormick wrote: I have a bootable live CD of an out-dated version of a specialized distribution of Debian called Vinux. I never saved the ISO image and I now want to copy from the CDRW it is on to a CDR to use as a rescue disk on systems tha

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-28 Thread Martin McCormick
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_Sch=F6nhaber?= writes: > If you don't want to use the CD copy function of one of the GUI burning > programs, you can, for example, do the following: > insert the CDRW into the drive and do > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=vinux.iso > (replace "/dev/cdrom" with the device node for your dr

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-28 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/28/11 at 08:39am, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a bootable live CD of an out-dated version of a > specialized distribution of Debian called Vinux. I never saved > the ISO image and I now want to copy from the CDRW it is on to a > CDR to use as a rescue disk on systems that can not read CDR

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-28 Thread Markus Schönhaber
28.06.2011 15:39, Martin McCormick: > I have a bootable live CD of an out-dated version of a > specialized distribution of Debian called Vinux. I never saved > the ISO image and I now want to copy from the CDRW it is on to a > CDR to use as a rescue disk on systems that can not read CDRW's. > >

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-28 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 28 June 2011 14:39:27 Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a bootable live CD of an out-dated version of a > specialized distribution of Debian called Vinux. I never saved > the ISO image and I now want to copy from the CDRW it is on to a > CDR to use as a rescue disk on systems that can not

Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-28 Thread Martin McCormick
I have a bootable live CD of an out-dated version of a specialized distribution of Debian called Vinux. I never saved the ISO image and I now want to copy from the CDRW it is on to a CDR to use as a rescue disk on systems that can not read CDRW's. The CDRW works fine so what is the best wa

Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-28 Thread Martin McCormick
I have a bootable live CD of an out-dated version of a specialized distribution of Debian called Vinux. I never saved the ISO image and I now want to copy from the CDRW it is on to a CDR to use as a rescue disk on systems that can not read CDRW's. The CDRW works fine so what is the best wa