iso file from a cd

[Justin Willmert]

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.

You may come up with problems since you can't mount the cd, but that is 
only a wild guess, so...

Hope this helps you,
Justin Willmert