iso file from a cd

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 17:14 -0500, Justin Willmert wrote:
> arora.himanshu at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >         I want to create an iso file of a CD in linux. The use of the 
> > command cat /dev/cdrom > file.iso is not woriking nither I am able to 
> > mount the CD.  It is giving Input/Output error. But gnome-cd is able to 
> > play the cd. How should I do this ?
> > 
> > Himanshu
> > 
> 
> You should be able to do this:
> 	dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/file.iso
> 
> You can probably speed up the copying with the bs option, but I don't 
> use this very often, so I'm a bit rusty, so I'd suggest you read up dd's 
> man file.

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/file.iso bs=2k

CDs use a 2048-byte block size.

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